Communications: electrical inventions 10/08

20080258863 - Method and a system for proximity evaluation: This invention relates to a method and a system for evaluating proximity. A reference object is moved such that it enters at least two different proximity areas of two different proximity indicators, whereby proximity indications are generated. The time difference between the indications is measured. If the time difference is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080258865 - Binary verification service: A binary is received at a binary verification service from a binary verification client agent. The binary verification service performs binary verification of the binary, wherein binary verification includes determining whether the binary is complicit with a set of usage rules. The binary verification service sends a binary verification result... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080258866 - Apparatus having a moveable component and method for controlling a movement of the moveable component: In the field of medical devices, for instance patient tables, it is known to block the movement of moveable components of a respective apparatus using blocking means and to release these only after actuating a switch. To be able to dispense with the foot switch, an authorized operator is equipped... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080258867 - Recreational vehicle wireless keyless power door lock: A power door lock device for a walkthrough door of a Recreational Vehicle (RV) includes a lock disposed in a lock housing. The power door lock also includes an actuator operably coupled to the lock and operable to engage the lock. A wireless receiver is coupled to the actuator and... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080258868 - Keyless entry system: A keyless entry system is provided that includes a vehicle-side device and a portable device. The vehicle-side device includes a vehicle-side transmission unit and a vehicle-side reception unit. The vehicle-side transmission unit is installed in a vehicle and connected to plural transmission antennas. The vehicle-side transmission unit transmits a request... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080258869 - Electronic key-management system: A device that is part of an electronic key-management system comprises an interface, and a key holder and key carrier device. The interface is capable of receiving a control signal from an external control system, such as a building access control system, a building security system, a building integration system,... Agent: Joseph P. Curtin

20080258864 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus for mutual communication, when acting as an authenticator communication apparatus performing authentication, includes a transmitting section that transmits to an authenticatee communication apparatus subject to authentication challenge data to authenticate the authenticatee communication apparatus in a time slot, which is a segmented period of time in which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080258870 - Remote control system and method: A vehicle remote control system includes a portable device for transmitting a control request command and an in-vehicle device for executing various kinds of vehicle control in accordance with the control request command. During execution of the control by the in-vehicle device, the portable device is set to a standby... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080258871 - Portable audio-capable device systems, in particular hearing systems, playing messages: A method includes the step of providing a user of a portable audio-capable device system, such as a hearing system, with a benefit as a reward for the user's consent to accept that said portable audio-capable device system plays messages, in particular audible messages. In particular, the benefit includes providing... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080258873 - Functional laminate: The invention refers to a functional laminate including at least one electrically conductive component, particularly an antenna coil or a track, arranged on a non-woven substrate with a grammage of less than 25 g/m2.... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080258872 - Method of operating a rfid system: The invention relates to a method of operating a RFID system comprising at least one reader (1) and a plurality of wireless data carriers (2), each of which comprise at least one data processing element with slow response (5), wherein the method controls the at least one reader (1) to... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080258875 - Radio frequency identification functionality coupled to electrically conductive signage: The present disclosure relates to multiple embodiments of a signage having radio-frequency responsive features, methods of making and using the signage, and the performance characteristics of the signage. These embodiments include a cutout, aperture, or opening in an electrically conductive sign into which or adjacent to which is placed an... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080258874 - Transponder circuit arrangement and method for operating a demodulator: A transponder circuit arrangement including antenna contacts to which an antenna signal can be applied. The antenna signal includes at least one signal in one transmission band of a plurality of transmission bands. The transponder circuit arrangement also includes a detector adapted to detect whether the antenna signal includes a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080258876 - Distributed antenna array with centralized data hub for determining presence and location of rf tags: A distributed antenna array with a centralized data hub for determining the presence and location of RF tags has been disclosed. This antenna array centralizes electronics and distributes the RF to zones in a facility to greatly reduce the expense of recurring components for monitoring RF tags. A single BRT/hub... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080258877 - Secure self scan: This invention includes the system and method for the manufacture and use of a hermetically sealed Faraday cage in the retail/consumer goods environment. It is called the “Secure Self Scan” and is constructed using meshed glass, sheet metal and edge level elastomers as agents of containment and reflection. The utility... Agent: James Neil Rodgers

20080258878 - Facilitating rfid tags to refrain from participating in a subsequent inventorying attempt: RFID reader systems, readers, components, software and methods can inventory RFID tags in one or more early attempts. Then they can facilitate the inventoried RFID tags to refrain from participating in one or more subsequent inventorying attempts. In some embodiments, an inventoried indicator in the tag becomes updated upon backscattering.... Agent: Adorno & Yoss, LLP

20080258879 - Comparing counter contents for timing critical applications: An electrical circuit for comparing contents of counter circuits. The electrical circuit comprises a first counter circuit and a second counter circuit electrically connected to a flip-flop circuit through a logic circuit and OR gates connected to the flip flop circuit. The first counter circuit is for receiving a first... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080258880 - Information collecting and decision making via tiered information network systems: Techniques, apparatus and systems for information collecting and decision making based on networks of sensors and communication nodes for security monitoring and warning, disaster warning, counter-terrorism, and other applications associated with information collecting and decision making.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080258881 - Method and system for provisioning a java equipped celluar telephone: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for provisioning a Java equipped cellular telephone. In one embodiment, a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data collector application is uploaded onto a Java equipped cellular telephone for enabling the Java equipped cellular telephone to perform GIS data collection functions. The... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080258882 - Powerline control system and method: Circuits and methods for transmission of digital data between two or more devices via powerline particularly suited for use in high attenuation, high noise commercial/industrial powerline environments, including transmission of pulses generated by a capacitor charged in the positive half cycle of the sine wave and discharged during the negative... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20080258883 - Horn device: An electro-mechanical horn is configured with a body, a sound-generating unit mounted in the body, and a plurality of power source receiving regions for storing at least one removably mounted power source in a storage manner while containing a second power source in an operative manner thereby limiting discontinuity of... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20080258884 - Method and device for driver assistance: A method and a device for driver assistance in which the warning threshold at which the driver is warned for example of a departure from the lane is adaptively adjusted as a function of the driver's state and/or the driving situation.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080258885 - System and method for recording environmental data in vehicles: System and method for recording environmental accident data in vehicles. In one aspect, environmental data is received at inputs to a recorder device from a plurality of data sources in the vehicle. The environmental data is processed and indexed for recording onto a plurality of storage media. The environmental data... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080258886 - Key locator and method of use thereof: A key locator apparatus is provided comprising at least one key having at least one key code, and a locator, programmed with at least one key code to be transmitted, wherein the locator sends an activation signal to the key to activate an alarm secured about the key that is... Agent: Williamson Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080258887 - Device for the detection of a collision of a motor vehicle: A device for the detection of a collision of a motor vehicle has at least one collision sensor which is arranged between the vehicle or fender outer skin and the vehicle body part, and senses an impact of an object on the motor vehicle. The collision sensor comprises a compressible... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080258888 - Driving support method and driving support system: A driving support unit includes an image signal input section which receives image signals for an area around a vehicle from a camera, a sensor I/F section that detects the head position of a driver sitting in the driver's seat of the vehicle, and a control section. The control section... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080258889 - Vehicle with always forward system: A system for a vehicle that includes a movable chassis and an operator station rotatable relative to the chassis. The system includes a sensor, an indicator assembly, and a controller. The sensor can detect an orientation of the operator station relative to the chassis, and generates a signal indicative of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080258891 - Driving state display device and straddle type vehicle having the same: A driving state display device of a straddle type vehicle has a nonvolatile memory in which operation modes are stored to be readable with a grade point provided for each operation mode, the grade point being proportional to a degree of energy-saving operation or uneconomic operation. A microcomputer calculates the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080258890 - System and method for remotely deactivating a vehicle: System and method for remotely deactivating a vehicle, comprising monitoring operations of the vehicle using an on-board monitoring system, detecting when one or more of the operations meet one or more preset criteria, and disabling the vehicle via the on-board monitoring system.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080258892 - Display device, vehicle, method for displaying, program for displaying and recording medium of same: A display section displays a speedometer having a substantially circular shape on an outer circumference of which a speed scale is provided. Then, that point on the outer circumference of the speedometer which indicates a speed at a moment is calculated. Further a speed that is attained at a given... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080258893 - Attached tire pressure sensor and air nozzle assembly: An attached tire pressure sensor and air nozzle assembly includes an air nozzle for installation in the rim of a vehicle wheel, an attached tire pressure sensor threadedly coupled with the air nozzle for sensing the tire pressure of the vehicle wheel, and an anti-loosing device sandwiched between the air... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080258894 - Wheel identifying apparatus having improved mounting structure of triggering devices: In a wheel identifying apparatus, first and second devices respectively transmit first and second trigger signals. The first device is mounted on the body of a vehicle closer to the front axle than the rear axle and closer to one of the front wheels than the other; it has the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080258895 - Power management device and computer readable medium: A power management device includes: a calculating unit that calculates the number of parking allowed days of a vehicle, based on information about the battery state and information about the current to be consumed by the vehicle while the vehicle is parked; an obtaining unit that obtains a response indicating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258896 - System for improving back end visibility and machine using same: A machine includes a back end vision improvement system comprising a camera mounted for viewing an area behind a back end of the machine and a monitor mounted in an operator control station. The monitor includes a display having an initial display layout. The machine also includes an electronic control... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper

20080258897 - Automotive display device, vehicle, and display method: An automotive display device, which allows the user to easily recognize the sameness of an information image even if the shape of the image is changed, is realized. An automotive display device (1) includes a display section (13) for displaying a vehicle information image including information regarding a vehicle. The... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080258898 - Alarm system for indicating vehicle running state: An alarm system for indicating vehicle running state comprises a main frame enclosed with a housing installed in a proper location of the vehicle body, and an accommodation space is formed between the main frame and its housing. A red, green and yellow light sources are installed on the main... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080258899 - Transmitter apparatus and system for remote signaling: An electronic system is described for controlling vehicle message lighting including turn and stop indicator signal lights, which system does not require any pre-existing wiring harness in either a towing vehicle 101 or any towed vehicle 104 to be in serviceable condition. In one embodiment the system implements a reliable... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080258900 - Warning light: A warning light and warning light assembly are disclosed. The warning light includes a housing including a base and a translucent cover. The light also includes a metallized circuit board having a base portion and one or more opposing side portions, the base portion sized to fit within the base... Agent: Erik G. Swenson Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080258901 - Apparatus and method for verifying procedure compliance: A device and method for verifying compliance of a patient preparing colon preparation prior to for example a colonoscopy diagnosis. One or more reminders may be issued to the patient to perform an activity for colon preparation. A confirmation may be received responding to the reminder and the confirmation may... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080258902 - Electronic locating systems: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for location of objects to facilitate retrieval, filing, security, inventory stock-keeping and the like. The methods and apparatus employ a tag element associated with each object-to-be-located, and interrogation system for searching one or more spatial regions for such tagged items, as well as mechanisms for... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080258904 - Alarm device and system: An addressable alarm device capable of connecting to a non-addressable alarm device as well as to a polling alarm system is disclosed. A plurality of tandem non-addressable alarm devices has the last tandem non-addressable alarm device terminate in the addressable alarm device. In this configuration when one non-addressable alarm device... Agent: George R. Reardon

20080258905 - Method for determining the position of devices in a hazard detection system: In order to determine the position of a device newly introduced into a hazard detection system, the devices of which include an insulator and are connected to a control center by a warning line, the newly introduced device is interrogated multiple times from one side of the warning line. The... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080258903 - Multifunctional powerline sensor network: A multifunctional powerline sensor network used for fire, toxic chemical gases and intruder detections. The network is comprised a master device, an array of sensor nodes, a host device/computer and the existing powerlines in the building/facility. This network offers many advantages including cost effectiveness, multifunction, high integration and ease of... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20080258906 - Integration system, system integration method and computer readable medium having system integration program: A safety controller includes a function block and a mapping block. The function block executes a function inherent to the safety controller. The mapping block converts data used in a control system among data handled by the function block into a data format which can be directly handled by the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080258907 - Wireless detection and alarm system for monitoring human falls and entries into swimming pools by using three dimensional acceleration and wireless link energy data method and apparatus: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for monitoring and analysis. The system (1000) includes a wireless detector (1040) within a body of water in combination with video cameras (1080) that surround a body of water. The wireless detector (130) sends acceleration data and the video cameras sends image data, both... Agent: Venable LLP

20080258908 - Systems and methods for communications activity status: Various systems and methods for indicating the status of a communication are disclosed herein. For example, status indication methods are disclosed that include initiating a communication that allows for communication between two persons. Further, the methods include determining a combination of status. The combination of status is based on a... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha

20080258909 - Methods and systems for automated data management: Methods and systems for preserving content in a data recorder are provided. The method includes acquiring at least one of image data and audio data relative to an environment in a vicinity of a camera, receiving a data preservation request, and stamping the at least one of image data and... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080258912 - Apparatus and method for monitoring a component of a wireless communication network to determine whether the component has been tampered with, disabled and/or removed: A method and apparatus for monitoring one or more components of a wireless communication network. Preferably, an alarm system is linked to one or more components of a wireless communication network to determine whether the one or more components have been tampered with, removed or otherwise disabled. The monitored component... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20080258913 - Electronic personal alert system: A personal alert system for sending alerts or notifications in certain conditions. An alert is created by a user, primary contact, first responder or other third party, and an alert message is sent to designated contacts. An alert message can provide an update on a pending alert. Alerts can be... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080258911 - Exit alarm escutcheon: An exit alarm system housed in an escutcheon for activating upon movement of an interior latch operator. The system is mounted to the interior side of a door with a latch assembly including an interior latch operator. The system may include an alarm, a trigger, and an electronic module. The... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080258910 - Student and faculty emergency response system (safers): An emergency response system that is used by schools to alert students, faculty, and staff on the school campus of critical situations. The system utilizes ID cards that are issued to the students, faculty, and staff at the beginning of each new school year, and issued to visitors as needed.... Agent: Scott Stapleford

20080258914 - Monitoring apparatus: A position detection sensor using electromagnetic wave (1) estimates the position of a monitor object (100) in a first detection region (101), and outputs it as a first possibility distribution. A second sensor (4) estimates the position of the monitor object (100) in a second detection region (102), and outputs... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080258915 - Managing of items distributed in a global supply chain: A method for determining locations in a predefined area for placing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader in order to obtain a full coverage of the predefined area is provided. The method includes arranging a plurality of hexagonal area to form a combined area until the total area of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080258919 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: Any radio channel is selected as a channel for medium communication among a plurality of radio channels and makes data communication with at least one RFID by using the channel for the medium communication. Especially, it is determined whether or not the data communication with the RFID has ended normally,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080258916 - Rfid tag chips and tags refraining from participating in a subsequent inventorying attempt and methods: RFID tags and chips for RFID tags are capable of being inventoried in one or more early attempts. These tags are capable of then refraining from participating in one or more subsequent inventorying attempts. In some embodiments refraining is performed solely by the tag, while in others it is guided... Agent: Adorno & Yoss, LLP

20080258917 - Rfid triggered personal athletic device: A personal athletic device is worn by a runner during a race. A race course is provided with a plurality of mats along the race course. The mats have antennas and generate a magnetic field. The personal athletic device has a chip system having an RFID tag and a display.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080258920 - Theft deterrent system: A security device that can be attached to a product or product package is disclosed. The device indicates the only authorized point or channel of sale and a method for deterring the theft and resale of goods. The method can include identifying a product which is likely target for theft... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080258918 - Wireless communication method: To provide a wireless communication method in the case where communication of a wireless signal from a communication device to a semiconductor device can be ensured, communication of a wireless signal can be ensured without using a repeater even when communication of a wireless signal from a semiconductor device to... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080258923 - Detection device for detecting heartbeat, respiration and behavior level of small animal: A detection device for detecting heartbeat, respiration and the behavior level of a small animal provided with supporting plate (4), multiple spacers (3) which are located on supporting plate (4) and vibration-transmitting plate (1) which has sensor (2) attached thereto and which is supported on multiple spacers (3).... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080258922 - Electronic patient treatment query: Processing of an electronic patient treatment query is disclosed. An apparatus includes: an input interface module configured to input patient data maintained in an electronic data system of a health care provider; a processing module configured to create a patient treatment query comprising a plurality of sections queried at predetermined... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080258921 - Footwork training system and method: A system and method for evaluating an activity includes an article of clothing provided with a sensor capable of detecting the impact of the article of clothing, such as a shoe, on a surface. A system receives and interprets the pattern of impacts made during the performance of the activity.... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20080258924 - Fire alarm system: A fire alarm system is disclosed where the unit detectors are addressable and in communication with other unit detectors located within a particular unit and are in communication with building detectors such that when one unit detector activates, all the other unit detectors in that unit also activate causing communication... Agent: George R. Reardon

20080258925 - Fire detector: A fire detector 1 operating by the scattered radiation principle is described, having at least one radiation transmitter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and at least one radiation receiver 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, whose beam paths form a scattering volume 7.1, 7.2, 7.3. The fire detector 1 includes, in addition to at least... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080258926 - Gas sensing method and instrument therefor: A method and instrument capable of accurately detecting the presence of a gas and accurately measuring the concentration of the gas in, for example, the environment. The method and instrument sense the presence of a gas with a sensing element whose output is linear to the concentration of the gas... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.C.

20080258927 - Monitoring device for motherboard voltage: An embodiment of a device for monitoring voltages of a motherboard includes: a comparator having an input terminal connected to a reference voltage and the other input terminal connected to a voltage of the motherboard; an electrical switch having a first terminal connected to an output terminal of the comparator,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080258928 - Systems and methods for stray voltage detection: Systems for detecting stray voltage in a conductive object include indicators for indicating to a user of the system whether stray voltage is present in the conductive object. In one aspect, a system for detecting stray voltage includes a pick-up element in contact with the conductive object and capable of... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080258929 - Method for monitoring movement with a medical installation and associated medical installation: The invention relates to a method for monitoring the movement of at least one mobile object with a medical installation. A current three-dimensional position of the at least one mobile object is detected by at least one position sensor that is arranged on the at least one mobile object. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080258930 - Permission based rfid tag: An implantable, readable miniature transponder has an antenna coupled to a microchip integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has unique identifying information stored in the chip. The integrated circuit microchip also has control logic, a muscle stimulator, an EMG amplifier and a data transmitter. The integrated circuit is connected to the... Agent: Don W. Weber

20080258931 - Pneumatically telescoping mast with dual mode remote control: A dual mode handheld remote control for selectively operating and communicating with an associated mast arrangement in one of a wired or a wireless mode is provided. The remote control includes a housing and a controller disposed internally to the housing. The controller includes a wireless communication mode for wirelessly... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080258932 - Wireless signal apparatus for assisting drivers to back large vehicles: A back-up safety apparatus and method that enables the driver of a large vehicle with inherent rear blind spots to receive signals, to proceed or stop, based on changing safe or unsafe conditions. A spotter who monitors the vehicle's progress from a safe and remote vantage point in the rear,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080258933 - Emergency traffic light system: A supplemental system of stop lights for use in conjunction with a primary stop light system. Solar powered supplemental stop light units are mechanically attached nearby the stop light units of the primary system. Should the primary system fail, the supplemental stop lights become active to re-establish control of the... Agent: Lauson & Schewe LLP

20080258934 - Method and apparatus for automated parking assistance: A method of automated parking assistance. A logic unit reads identification information from a transponder attached to a vehicle and determines the current position of the vehicle by measuring distances between the transponder and multiple stationary sensor devices. A pre-defined parking location is stored by pressing a single button. If... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080258935 - Parking control system and method: Provided are a parking control system and method. In particularly, the present invention provides a total parking control system and method which are capable of automatically managing and controlling a whole process from a time when a vehicle enters a parking lot to a time when it goes out of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080258936 - System and method for tracking and billing vehicle users based on when and in which road lanes their vehicles have been driven: A system includes one or more transponders, a number of sensors, a tracking sub-system, and a billing sub-system. Each transponder is located in a vehicle capable of being driven on a road having at least a first lane and a second lane in which vehicles move in a same direction.... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080258937 - System for use in stations for road tolls: The invention relates to a system for use with stations for road tolls, comprising a first optical apparatus for recording images of the roadway and a second apparatus for wireless communication with a vehicle apparatus. The height above the roadway and the angle in a lateral and a vertical direction... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080258938 - System and method for digital vehicle plating: A method for operating a digital plate on a vehicle. The method includes determining the location of a vehicle and displaying, on a digital plate on the vehicle, registration data corresponding to the vehicle and the vehicle location. The method further includes updating the registration data displayed on the digital... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20080258939 - Method, system and device for monitoring vehicle usage: A vehicle tracking device (101), method and/or system are provided. The device (101) includes a location interface (117), for receiving a location signal indicating a current location when operably connected to a GPS antenna; a sensor interface (109), for receiving sensor signals from sensors in the vehicle indicating a sensed... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080258863 - Method and a system for proximity evaluation: This invention relates to a method and a system for evaluating proximity. A reference object is moved such that it enters at least two different proximity areas of two different proximity indicators, whereby proximity indications are generated. The time difference between the indications is measured. If the time difference is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080258865 - Binary verification service: A binary is received at a binary verification service from a binary verification client agent. The binary verification service performs binary verification of the binary, wherein binary verification includes determining whether the binary is complicit with a set of usage rules. The binary verification service sends a binary verification result... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080258866 - Apparatus having a moveable component and method for controlling a movement of the moveable component: In the field of medical devices, for instance patient tables, it is known to block the movement of moveable components of a respective apparatus using blocking means and to release these only after actuating a switch. To be able to dispense with the foot switch, an authorized operator is equipped... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080258867 - Recreational vehicle wireless keyless power door lock: A power door lock device for a walkthrough door of a Recreational Vehicle (RV) includes a lock disposed in a lock housing. The power door lock also includes an actuator operably coupled to the lock and operable to engage the lock. A wireless receiver is coupled to the actuator and... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080258868 - Keyless entry system: A keyless entry system is provided that includes a vehicle-side device and a portable device. The vehicle-side device includes a vehicle-side transmission unit and a vehicle-side reception unit. The vehicle-side transmission unit is installed in a vehicle and connected to plural transmission antennas. The vehicle-side transmission unit transmits a request... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080258869 - Electronic key-management system: A device that is part of an electronic key-management system comprises an interface, and a key holder and key carrier device. The interface is capable of receiving a control signal from an external control system, such as a building access control system, a building security system, a building integration system,... Agent: Joseph P. Curtin

20080258864 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus for mutual communication, when acting as an authenticator communication apparatus performing authentication, includes a transmitting section that transmits to an authenticatee communication apparatus subject to authentication challenge data to authenticate the authenticatee communication apparatus in a time slot, which is a segmented period of time in which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080258870 - Remote control system and method: A vehicle remote control system includes a portable device for transmitting a control request command and an in-vehicle device for executing various kinds of vehicle control in accordance with the control request command. During execution of the control by the in-vehicle device, the portable device is set to a standby... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080258871 - Portable audio-capable device systems, in particular hearing systems, playing messages: A method includes the step of providing a user of a portable audio-capable device system, such as a hearing system, with a benefit as a reward for the user's consent to accept that said portable audio-capable device system plays messages, in particular audible messages. In particular, the benefit includes providing... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080258873 - Functional laminate: The invention refers to a functional laminate including at least one electrically conductive component, particularly an antenna coil or a track, arranged on a non-woven substrate with a grammage of less than 25 g/m2.... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080258872 - Method of operating a rfid system: The invention relates to a method of operating a RFID system comprising at least one reader (1) and a plurality of wireless data carriers (2), each of which comprise at least one data processing element with slow response (5), wherein the method controls the at least one reader (1) to... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080258875 - Radio frequency identification functionality coupled to electrically conductive signage: The present disclosure relates to multiple embodiments of a signage having radio-frequency responsive features, methods of making and using the signage, and the performance characteristics of the signage. These embodiments include a cutout, aperture, or opening in an electrically conductive sign into which or adjacent to which is placed an... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080258874 - Transponder circuit arrangement and method for operating a demodulator: A transponder circuit arrangement including antenna contacts to which an antenna signal can be applied. The antenna signal includes at least one signal in one transmission band of a plurality of transmission bands. The transponder circuit arrangement also includes a detector adapted to detect whether the antenna signal includes a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080258876 - Distributed antenna array with centralized data hub for determining presence and location of rf tags: A distributed antenna array with a centralized data hub for determining the presence and location of RF tags has been disclosed. This antenna array centralizes electronics and distributes the RF to zones in a facility to greatly reduce the expense of recurring components for monitoring RF tags. A single BRT/hub... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080258877 - Secure self scan: This invention includes the system and method for the manufacture and use of a hermetically sealed Faraday cage in the retail/consumer goods environment. It is called the “Secure Self Scan” and is constructed using meshed glass, sheet metal and edge level elastomers as agents of containment and reflection. The utility... Agent: James Neil Rodgers

20080258878 - Facilitating rfid tags to refrain from participating in a subsequent inventorying attempt: RFID reader systems, readers, components, software and methods can inventory RFID tags in one or more early attempts. Then they can facilitate the inventoried RFID tags to refrain from participating in one or more subsequent inventorying attempts. In some embodiments, an inventoried indicator in the tag becomes updated upon backscattering.... Agent: Adorno & Yoss, LLP

20080258879 - Comparing counter contents for timing critical applications: An electrical circuit for comparing contents of counter circuits. The electrical circuit comprises a first counter circuit and a second counter circuit electrically connected to a flip-flop circuit through a logic circuit and OR gates connected to the flip flop circuit. The first counter circuit is for receiving a first... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080258880 - Information collecting and decision making via tiered information network systems: Techniques, apparatus and systems for information collecting and decision making based on networks of sensors and communication nodes for security monitoring and warning, disaster warning, counter-terrorism, and other applications associated with information collecting and decision making.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080258881 - Method and system for provisioning a java equipped celluar telephone: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for provisioning a Java equipped cellular telephone. In one embodiment, a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data collector application is uploaded onto a Java equipped cellular telephone for enabling the Java equipped cellular telephone to perform GIS data collection functions. The... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080258882 - Powerline control system and method: Circuits and methods for transmission of digital data between two or more devices via powerline particularly suited for use in high attenuation, high noise commercial/industrial powerline environments, including transmission of pulses generated by a capacitor charged in the positive half cycle of the sine wave and discharged during the negative... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20080258883 - Horn device: An electro-mechanical horn is configured with a body, a sound-generating unit mounted in the body, and a plurality of power source receiving regions for storing at least one removably mounted power source in a storage manner while containing a second power source in an operative manner thereby limiting discontinuity of... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20080258884 - Method and device for driver assistance: A method and a device for driver assistance in which the warning threshold at which the driver is warned for example of a departure from the lane is adaptively adjusted as a function of the driver's state and/or the driving situation.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080258885 - System and method for recording environmental data in vehicles: System and method for recording environmental accident data in vehicles. In one aspect, environmental data is received at inputs to a recorder device from a plurality of data sources in the vehicle. The environmental data is processed and indexed for recording onto a plurality of storage media. The environmental data... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080258886 - Key locator and method of use thereof: A key locator apparatus is provided comprising at least one key having at least one key code, and a locator, programmed with at least one key code to be transmitted, wherein the locator sends an activation signal to the key to activate an alarm secured about the key that is... Agent: Williamson Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080258887 - Device for the detection of a collision of a motor vehicle: A device for the detection of a collision of a motor vehicle has at least one collision sensor which is arranged between the vehicle or fender outer skin and the vehicle body part, and senses an impact of an object on the motor vehicle. The collision sensor comprises a compressible... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080258888 - Driving support method and driving support system: A driving support unit includes an image signal input section which receives image signals for an area around a vehicle from a camera, a sensor I/F section that detects the head position of a driver sitting in the driver's seat of the vehicle, and a control section. The control section... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080258889 - Vehicle with always forward system: A system for a vehicle that includes a movable chassis and an operator station rotatable relative to the chassis. The system includes a sensor, an indicator assembly, and a controller. The sensor can detect an orientation of the operator station relative to the chassis, and generates a signal indicative of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080258891 - Driving state display device and straddle type vehicle having the same: A driving state display device of a straddle type vehicle has a nonvolatile memory in which operation modes are stored to be readable with a grade point provided for each operation mode, the grade point being proportional to a degree of energy-saving operation or uneconomic operation. A microcomputer calculates the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080258890 - System and method for remotely deactivating a vehicle: System and method for remotely deactivating a vehicle, comprising monitoring operations of the vehicle using an on-board monitoring system, detecting when one or more of the operations meet one or more preset criteria, and disabling the vehicle via the on-board monitoring system.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080258892 - Display device, vehicle, method for displaying, program for displaying and recording medium of same: A display section displays a speedometer having a substantially circular shape on an outer circumference of which a speed scale is provided. Then, that point on the outer circumference of the speedometer which indicates a speed at a moment is calculated. Further a speed that is attained at a given... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080258893 - Attached tire pressure sensor and air nozzle assembly: An attached tire pressure sensor and air nozzle assembly includes an air nozzle for installation in the rim of a vehicle wheel, an attached tire pressure sensor threadedly coupled with the air nozzle for sensing the tire pressure of the vehicle wheel, and an anti-loosing device sandwiched between the air... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080258894 - Wheel identifying apparatus having improved mounting structure of triggering devices: In a wheel identifying apparatus, first and second devices respectively transmit first and second trigger signals. The first device is mounted on the body of a vehicle closer to the front axle than the rear axle and closer to one of the front wheels than the other; it has the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080258895 - Power management device and computer readable medium: A power management device includes: a calculating unit that calculates the number of parking allowed days of a vehicle, based on information about the battery state and information about the current to be consumed by the vehicle while the vehicle is parked; an obtaining unit that obtains a response indicating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258896 - System for improving back end visibility and machine using same: A machine includes a back end vision improvement system comprising a camera mounted for viewing an area behind a back end of the machine and a monitor mounted in an operator control station. The monitor includes a display having an initial display layout. The machine also includes an electronic control... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper

20080258897 - Automotive display device, vehicle, and display method: An automotive display device, which allows the user to easily recognize the sameness of an information image even if the shape of the image is changed, is realized. An automotive display device (1) includes a display section (13) for displaying a vehicle information image including information regarding a vehicle. The... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080258898 - Alarm system for indicating vehicle running state: An alarm system for indicating vehicle running state comprises a main frame enclosed with a housing installed in a proper location of the vehicle body, and an accommodation space is formed between the main frame and its housing. A red, green and yellow light sources are installed on the main... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080258899 - Transmitter apparatus and system for remote signaling: An electronic system is described for controlling vehicle message lighting including turn and stop indicator signal lights, which system does not require any pre-existing wiring harness in either a towing vehicle 101 or any towed vehicle 104 to be in serviceable condition. In one embodiment the system implements a reliable... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080258900 - Warning light: A warning light and warning light assembly are disclosed. The warning light includes a housing including a base and a translucent cover. The light also includes a metallized circuit board having a base portion and one or more opposing side portions, the base portion sized to fit within the base... Agent: Erik G. Swenson Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080258901 - Apparatus and method for verifying procedure compliance: A device and method for verifying compliance of a patient preparing colon preparation prior to for example a colonoscopy diagnosis. One or more reminders may be issued to the patient to perform an activity for colon preparation. A confirmation may be received responding to the reminder and the confirmation may... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080258902 - Electronic locating systems: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for location of objects to facilitate retrieval, filing, security, inventory stock-keeping and the like. The methods and apparatus employ a tag element associated with each object-to-be-located, and interrogation system for searching one or more spatial regions for such tagged items, as well as mechanisms for... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080258904 - Alarm device and system: An addressable alarm device capable of connecting to a non-addressable alarm device as well as to a polling alarm system is disclosed. A plurality of tandem non-addressable alarm devices has the last tandem non-addressable alarm device terminate in the addressable alarm device. In this configuration when one non-addressable alarm device... Agent: George R. Reardon

20080258905 - Method for determining the position of devices in a hazard detection system: In order to determine the position of a device newly introduced into a hazard detection system, the devices of which include an insulator and are connected to a control center by a warning line, the newly introduced device is interrogated multiple times from one side of the warning line. The... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080258903 - Multifunctional powerline sensor network: A multifunctional powerline sensor network used for fire, toxic chemical gases and intruder detections. The network is comprised a master device, an array of sensor nodes, a host device/computer and the existing powerlines in the building/facility. This network offers many advantages including cost effectiveness, multifunction, high integration and ease of... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20080258906 - Integration system, system integration method and computer readable medium having system integration program: A safety controller includes a function block and a mapping block. The function block executes a function inherent to the safety controller. The mapping block converts data used in a control system among data handled by the function block into a data format which can be directly handled by the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080258907 - Wireless detection and alarm system for monitoring human falls and entries into swimming pools by using three dimensional acceleration and wireless link energy data method and apparatus: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for monitoring and analysis. The system (1000) includes a wireless detector (1040) within a body of water in combination with video cameras (1080) that surround a body of water. The wireless detector (130) sends acceleration data and the video cameras sends image data, both... Agent: Venable LLP

20080258908 - Systems and methods for communications activity status: Various systems and methods for indicating the status of a communication are disclosed herein. For example, status indication methods are disclosed that include initiating a communication that allows for communication between two persons. Further, the methods include determining a combination of status. The combination of status is based on a... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha

20080258909 - Methods and systems for automated data management: Methods and systems for preserving content in a data recorder are provided. The method includes acquiring at least one of image data and audio data relative to an environment in a vicinity of a camera, receiving a data preservation request, and stamping the at least one of image data and... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080258912 - Apparatus and method for monitoring a component of a wireless communication network to determine whether the component has been tampered with, disabled and/or removed: A method and apparatus for monitoring one or more components of a wireless communication network. Preferably, an alarm system is linked to one or more components of a wireless communication network to determine whether the one or more components have been tampered with, removed or otherwise disabled. The monitored component... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20080258913 - Electronic personal alert system: A personal alert system for sending alerts or notifications in certain conditions. An alert is created by a user, primary contact, first responder or other third party, and an alert message is sent to designated contacts. An alert message can provide an update on a pending alert. Alerts can be... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080258911 - Exit alarm escutcheon: An exit alarm system housed in an escutcheon for activating upon movement of an interior latch operator. The system is mounted to the interior side of a door with a latch assembly including an interior latch operator. The system may include an alarm, a trigger, and an electronic module. The... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080258910 - Student and faculty emergency response system (safers): An emergency response system that is used by schools to alert students, faculty, and staff on the school campus of critical situations. The system utilizes ID cards that are issued to the students, faculty, and staff at the beginning of each new school year, and issued to visitors as needed.... Agent: Scott Stapleford

20080258914 - Monitoring apparatus: A position detection sensor using electromagnetic wave (1) estimates the position of a monitor object (100) in a first detection region (101), and outputs it as a first possibility distribution. A second sensor (4) estimates the position of the monitor object (100) in a second detection region (102), and outputs... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080258915 - Managing of items distributed in a global supply chain: A method for determining locations in a predefined area for placing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader in order to obtain a full coverage of the predefined area is provided. The method includes arranging a plurality of hexagonal area to form a combined area until the total area of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080258919 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: Any radio channel is selected as a channel for medium communication among a plurality of radio channels and makes data communication with at least one RFID by using the channel for the medium communication. Especially, it is determined whether or not the data communication with the RFID has ended normally,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080258916 - Rfid tag chips and tags refraining from participating in a subsequent inventorying attempt and methods: RFID tags and chips for RFID tags are capable of being inventoried in one or more early attempts. These tags are capable of then refraining from participating in one or more subsequent inventorying attempts. In some embodiments refraining is performed solely by the tag, while in others it is guided... Agent: Adorno & Yoss, LLP

20080258917 - Rfid triggered personal athletic device: A personal athletic device is worn by a runner during a race. A race course is provided with a plurality of mats along the race course. The mats have antennas and generate a magnetic field. The personal athletic device has a chip system having an RFID tag and a display.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080258920 - Theft deterrent system: A security device that can be attached to a product or product package is disclosed. The device indicates the only authorized point or channel of sale and a method for deterring the theft and resale of goods. The method can include identifying a product which is likely target for theft... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080258918 - Wireless communication method: To provide a wireless communication method in the case where communication of a wireless signal from a communication device to a semiconductor device can be ensured, communication of a wireless signal can be ensured without using a repeater even when communication of a wireless signal from a semiconductor device to... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080258923 - Detection device for detecting heartbeat, respiration and behavior level of small animal: A detection device for detecting heartbeat, respiration and the behavior level of a small animal provided with supporting plate (4), multiple spacers (3) which are located on supporting plate (4) and vibration-transmitting plate (1) which has sensor (2) attached thereto and which is supported on multiple spacers (3).... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080258922 - Electronic patient treatment query: Processing of an electronic patient treatment query is disclosed. An apparatus includes: an input interface module configured to input patient data maintained in an electronic data system of a health care provider; a processing module configured to create a patient treatment query comprising a plurality of sections queried at predetermined... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080258921 - Footwork training system and method: A system and method for evaluating an activity includes an article of clothing provided with a sensor capable of detecting the impact of the article of clothing, such as a shoe, on a surface. A system receives and interprets the pattern of impacts made during the performance of the activity.... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20080258924 - Fire alarm system: A fire alarm system is disclosed where the unit detectors are addressable and in communication with other unit detectors located within a particular unit and are in communication with building detectors such that when one unit detector activates, all the other unit detectors in that unit also activate causing communication... Agent: George R. Reardon

20080258925 - Fire detector: A fire detector 1 operating by the scattered radiation principle is described, having at least one radiation transmitter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and at least one radiation receiver 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, whose beam paths form a scattering volume 7.1, 7.2, 7.3. The fire detector 1 includes, in addition to at least... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080258926 - Gas sensing method and instrument therefor: A method and instrument capable of accurately detecting the presence of a gas and accurately measuring the concentration of the gas in, for example, the environment. The method and instrument sense the presence of a gas with a sensing element whose output is linear to the concentration of the gas... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.C.

20080258927 - Monitoring device for motherboard voltage: An embodiment of a device for monitoring voltages of a motherboard includes: a comparator having an input terminal connected to a reference voltage and the other input terminal connected to a voltage of the motherboard; an electrical switch having a first terminal connected to an output terminal of the comparator,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080258928 - Systems and methods for stray voltage detection: Systems for detecting stray voltage in a conductive object include indicators for indicating to a user of the system whether stray voltage is present in the conductive object. In one aspect, a system for detecting stray voltage includes a pick-up element in contact with the conductive object and capable of... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080258929 - Method for monitoring movement with a medical installation and associated medical installation: The invention relates to a method for monitoring the movement of at least one mobile object with a medical installation. A current three-dimensional position of the at least one mobile object is detected by at least one position sensor that is arranged on the at least one mobile object. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080258930 - Permission based rfid tag: An implantable, readable miniature transponder has an antenna coupled to a microchip integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has unique identifying information stored in the chip. The integrated circuit microchip also has control logic, a muscle stimulator, an EMG amplifier and a data transmitter. The integrated circuit is connected to the... Agent: Don W. Weber

20080258931 - Pneumatically telescoping mast with dual mode remote control: A dual mode handheld remote control for selectively operating and communicating with an associated mast arrangement in one of a wired or a wireless mode is provided. The remote control includes a housing and a controller disposed internally to the housing. The controller includes a wireless communication mode for wirelessly... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080258932 - Wireless signal apparatus for assisting drivers to back large vehicles: A back-up safety apparatus and method that enables the driver of a large vehicle with inherent rear blind spots to receive signals, to proceed or stop, based on changing safe or unsafe conditions. A spotter who monitors the vehicle's progress from a safe and remote vantage point in the rear,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080258933 - Emergency traffic light system: A supplemental system of stop lights for use in conjunction with a primary stop light system. Solar powered supplemental stop light units are mechanically attached nearby the stop light units of the primary system. Should the primary system fail, the supplemental stop lights become active to re-establish control of the... Agent: Lauson & Schewe LLP

20080258934 - Method and apparatus for automated parking assistance: A method of automated parking assistance. A logic unit reads identification information from a transponder attached to a vehicle and determines the current position of the vehicle by measuring distances between the transponder and multiple stationary sensor devices. A pre-defined parking location is stored by pressing a single button. If... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080258935 - Parking control system and method: Provided are a parking control system and method. In particularly, the present invention provides a total parking control system and method which are capable of automatically managing and controlling a whole process from a time when a vehicle enters a parking lot to a time when it goes out of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080258936 - System and method for tracking and billing vehicle users based on when and in which road lanes their vehicles have been driven: A system includes one or more transponders, a number of sensors, a tracking sub-system, and a billing sub-system. Each transponder is located in a vehicle capable of being driven on a road having at least a first lane and a second lane in which vehicles move in a same direction.... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080258937 - System for use in stations for road tolls: The invention relates to a system for use with stations for road tolls, comprising a first optical apparatus for recording images of the roadway and a second apparatus for wireless communication with a vehicle apparatus. The height above the roadway and the angle in a lateral and a vertical direction... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080258938 - System and method for digital vehicle plating: A method for operating a digital plate on a vehicle. The method includes determining the location of a vehicle and displaying, on a digital plate on the vehicle, registration data corresponding to the vehicle and the vehicle location. The method further includes updating the registration data displayed on the digital... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20080258939 - Method, system and device for monitoring vehicle usage: A vehicle tracking device (101), method and/or system are provided. The device (101) includes a location interface (117), for receiving a location signal indicating a current location when operably connected to a GPS antenna; a sensor interface (109), for receiving sensor signals from sensors in the vehicle indicating a sensed... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080252411 - Distributed system for managing multiple items: Disclosed are distributed systems and methods for managing multiple items. An exemplary system includes a user interface that allows a user to specify a date and time of day. The exemplary system also includes a plurality of portable devices, which may be attached to objects, such as bracelets or documents.... Agent: Jerome D. Jackson (jackson Patent Law Office)

20080252413 - Information communication system, facility apparatus, user apparatus, and methods for controlling facility apparatus and user apparatus: An information communication system is capable of allowing a service provider at a facility to appropriately attend a user visiting the facility in accordance with an intention of the user. The information communication system includes a user apparatus carried by the user and a facility apparatus installed at a facility... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080252412 - Method for performing driver identity verification: Method for assuring that the operator of a vehicle is an authorized driver, the method including utilizing an onboard, multi-mode driver identification system to ascertain whether an operator is an authorized driver. A first driver identification procedure is performed on a present operator of the vehicle and determining whether the... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20080252414 - Biometric access control system incorporating a touchscreen accessible and kiosk based id station operating in combination with multiple critical asset retaining racks and locers for permitting selective biometric input and processor driven/wireless relea: A biometric access control system for tracking critical assets and including an ID station incorporating a biometric input reader, an RFID antenna and reader and a wired or wireless (Bluetooth) communication device. A remotely positioned structure includes either or both of a rack or a locker for holding a plurality... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080252415 - Restricted range lockbox, access device and methods: A lockbox includes a housing, a key storage area and a lockbox circuit. The key storage area is shaped to receive a stored key and is attached to or positioned within the housing. The key storage area is secured with a lock mechanism to prevent unauthorized access to the stored... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080252423 - Antenna design and interrogator system: A series of parallel spaced conductors through which currents are sequentially switched. A spatial relationship of the sequentially switched currents is chosen such that, at different times, tangential and normal magnetic fields are produced at the same location. The conductors are preferably arranged in a planar fashion and the tangential... Agent: Winstead PC

20080252421 - Architecture for rfid tag reader/writer: An RFID transceiver (200) includes a common frequency source (50), a receiving channel (230) and a transmitting channel (240). The common frequency source (250) is configured to provide a predefined intermediate frequency signal fIF, and a predefined carrier frequency signal fc. The RFID receiving channel (230) includes an upconverting mixer... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080252416 - Electronic device: The present invention relates to an electronic device (1) comprising a display (3) and an integrated communication device (4), such as an RFID tag reader. In order to facilitate the positioning of the electronic device (1) in such a way that the communication device (4) is aligned with a corresponding... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252422 - Method of remote powering and detecting multiple uwb passive tags in an rfid system: A new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), tracking, powering apparatus/system and method using coded Ultra-wideband (UWB) signaling is introduced. The proposed hardware and techniques disclosed herein utilize a plurality of passive UWB transponders in a field of an RFID-radar system. The radar system itself enables multiple passive tags to be remotely... Agent: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

20080252420 - Rfid system, gate arrangement with rfid system and method of detecting transponders: With an RFID system for communicating between reading units (R1, R2) and transponders (T1, T2) in at least two different scan areas (S1, S2), wherein at least one reading unit (R1, R2) and at least one antenna (A1-A4, B1-B4) communicating with the reading unit are allocated to each scan area... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080252425 - Rfid tag, method for manufacturing rfid tag and method for arranging rfid tag: An RFID tag is characterized in that it includes: a dielectric substrate; a ground conductor portion disposed on one main surface of this dielectric substrate; a patch conductor portion disposed on another main surface of the above-mentioned dielectric substrate and forming a slot; electrical connecting portions internally extending from opposing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080252424 - Stochastic communication protocol method and system for radio frequency identification (rfid) tags based on coalition formation, such as for tag-to-tag communication: Data carriers (such as RFID tags) are formed into clusters of data carriers. Each cluster has at least one bridge data carrier that can communicate with a bridge data carrier of another cluster, thereby allowing data carriers in each cluster to communicate directly or indirectly with each other using a... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080252417 - System, method, apparatus, and computer program product for monitoring the tranfer of cargo to and from a transporter: Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for monitoring the transfer of cargo, such as a shipping container, to and from a transporter, such as a truck. Identification codes are provided on the cargo and the transporter to aid in the identification of the cargo and the transporter.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080252418 - Transponder device and method for providing a supply voltage: Transponder circuit arrangement having antenna connections for application of a voltage signal, a load-reduction modulation device, which is coupled to the antenna connections and is designed to modulate the applied, unmodulated voltage signal, which is at a first level, and a voltage conversion device, which is coupled to the load-reduction... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080252419 - Wireless access control system and method: A wireless access control system comprises a docking station configured to wirelessly identify a computing device, the docking station configured to, based on the identification of the computing device, selectively control access to at least one resource available through the docking station by the computing device.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080252426 - Intelligent rfid system for low powered reader-tag communication and method thereof: The present invention relates, in general, to a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system for reading or recording RFID tag information using radio frequencies and, more particularly, to an intelligent RFID system for low-powered reader-tag communication, which includes an RF shower system (370) that radiates a high power electromagnetic wave in... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080252427 - Using tags to modify program behavior: A first electronic device (201) can gather information about itself or another electronic device (206, 208), which is preferably situated within a same room of a user premises. This information can come from an RF-ID tag (204, 207, 209) or other transmitter The information can relate to a state or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252428 - Association of refrigerated shipping containers with dispatch orders: A database dispatches data to a wireless device on the particular source that powers a container during any segment of its journey.... Agent: Leo Stanger

20080252429 - Vehicular power line communication system: Plural communication areas are provided, and plural electronic control units for mutually making communication in each of the communication areas are provided. A vehicular power line communication system includes a power line coupling the respective communication areas to one another, branch power lines coupling the respective electronic control units in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080252430 - Powerline pulse position modulated transmitter apparatus and method: A transmitting controller is connected to a powerline and on command places a reference signal and a series of signal pulses in the powerline at a series of signal timing positions related to zero voltage crossing points so that the signals pulses are substantially in the powerline temporal quiet zone... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20080252431 - System and method for asset tracking: A system and method for asset tracking utilizing a wireless device. An asset such as a vehicle can be equipped with a 3-axis geomagnetic sensor and an accelerometer in association with a remote control hardware component capable of responding to SMS (Short Message Service) command transmitted from the wireless device.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Attorney, Intellectual Property

20080252432 - Remote control with energy harvesting: A remote control includes energy harvesting that provides power in addition to a battery. The energy harvesting and the battery may be switchably used to power transmit operations, receive operation, and/or display operations. The remote control may be used as part of an automotive vehicle remote keyless entry system in... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20080252433 - Vehicle driving aid and method and improved related device: A vehicle driving aid method includes and defining an occupation grid corresponding to discretization into N cells of a field of kinematic parameters of a detected object; acquiring at each time k an observation zk produced by a sensor and determining a sensor probability modeling the behavior thereof; calculating for... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080252435 - Tire identification system, tire pressure monitoring system using the same and method for tire identification: A tire identification system for use in a vehicle, a tire pressure monitoring system using the same and a method for tire identification are disclosed. The vehicle comprises a plurality of tires and a receiver. Each of the tires comprises a tire identification code. The receiver is used to receive... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080252434 - Wheel status monitoring system: The present invention relates to a tire pressure monitoring system for a vehicle using temperature sensors mounted on axles in close proximity to each wheel to detect an increase in temperature generated by a compromised tire and conducted to the axle. The temperature information for each wheel is sent wired... Agent: Michael Ries

20080252436 - Self-diagnostic angular speed sensor for vehicle: An angular speed sensor for a vehicle includes an angular speed sensor unit mounted in the vehicle, a microcomputer in which an offset correction value storing section and a diagnosis section are incorporated. The offset correction value storing section stores an offset correction value, which is an angular speed that... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080252437 - Battery run down indicator: An automotive vehicle battery monitor includes an electrical connection configured to electrically couple to an electrical system of the vehicle. An output provides a visual indication related to a condition of the battery. A mount mounts the output at a location at which the output is visible from outside of... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080252438 - Warning system and method of providing a warning: A warning system has a power position detection device, a gear shift position detection device, an alighting detection device, and a power position warning device. The device is operable to provide the power position warning indication when the power position detection device, the gear shift position detection device and the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080252439 - Onboard display device, onboard display system and vehicle: An onboard display device in accordance with the present invention includes a display section (11) attached to an instrument panel of a vehicle. The section (11) has a second display area (11b) and a first display area (11a). The second display area (11b) shows at least the speed as vehicle... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080252440 - Distributed monitoring method: A distributed monitoring method, which can be used in a security system, a fire prevention system, transformer stations, base stations for mobile communication and places for internal management of many kinds of facilities, uses a controller and at least two field devices, and the communication between the controller and the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080252441 - Method and apparatus for performing a real-time root-cause analysis by analyzing degrading telemetry signals: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs a real-time root-cause-analysis for a degradation event associated with a component under test. During operation, the system monitors a telemetry signal collected from the component, and while doing so, attempts to detect an anomaly in the telemetry signal. If... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080252442 - Wireless remote sensor: An integrated circuit implements a wireless remote sensor. The wireless remote sensor includes an antenna coupled to an energy distribution unit to allow passive collection of electrical charge. A signal processing unit couples to the energy distribution unit and modulates transmission by the antenna according to a binary code.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080252443 - Method and apparatus for providing dynamic multi-stage signal amplification in a medical device: Methods and apparatus for providing multi-stage signal amplification in a medical telemetry system are provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080252444 - Portable impact detection, wireless tracking and dispatch: A portable communication device/system for use with a vehicle includes a monitoring device having a motion sensor and a proximity sensor. The monitoring device initiates a signal upon the occurrence of a vehicular event such as the breaching of the perimeter specified by the proximity sensor or an abrupt motion... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080252445 - Dynamically configurable wireless sensor networks: Techniques, apparatus and wireless sensing networks for using wireless sensor modules positioned at different locations to obtain data of a person, an object or a premise and to form a dynamically configurable wireless sensing network where each wireless sensor module is wirelessly connected to the network and can be automatically... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080252446 - Power hand tool with data collection and storage and method of operating: The invention provides a system and method of monitoring at least one operating characteristic of a hand power tool. In one embodiment, a hand power tool includes a housing, a motor within the housing and a tag mounted on the housing. The tag includes a first antenna for harvesting energy... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20080252447 - Combination smoke and water detector: The apparatus is a combination smoke and water detector. The smoke detector has an alarm and a test switch. The smoke detector is electrically connected to an open cell foam sensing pad through a pair of wire leads. The sensing pad is contained in a plastic housing having at least... Agent: F. Rhett Brockington

20080252449 - Device, system and method for the location and identification of as-built plants of pipes, conduits, cables or hidden objects: A device 20 for location and identification of pipes, conduits, cables or buried or hidden objects 8 is described without the need of any invasive and/or destructive work, said device comprising at least one transponder 1 utilizing RFID or like technology for identification without any physical contact or line-of-sight, said... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252448 - System and method for event detection utilizing sensor based surveillance: The present invention includes a method, system, and program product for detecting an event that includes receiving at least one data input stream from one or more sensors, selecting a data input stream from one of the one or more sensors, recording the data input stream on a recordable medium,... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080252450 - A method and a device for detecting intrusion into or tampering with contents of an enclosure: A method and a device for detecting intrusion into or tampering with contents of an enclosure. According to the method at least one gas proof seal-barrier is provided in association with the enclosure and a first environment is produced within said gas proof seal-barrier. Said first environment is different regarding... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20080252451 - Monitoring device for windows and doors: A monitoring device for securing windows and doors, the swivellable handle of which is held on a handle fitting and can be connected, rotation-resistant, via a multi-sided insert pin to locking devices, with a housing at least partly accommodating the monitoring device which is penetrated by the multi-sided guide-pin with... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080252452 - Intruder detection system: An intruder detection system includes: an intruder detection device; and a leaky transmission line pair including a transmission-side leaky transmission line, which is connected to the intruder detection device and through which an electric wave is output on the basis of an output from the intruder detection device, and a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080252453 - Monitoring device, carrier device and method involving monitoring device and a carrier device: A method for monitoring the presence of a monitored item. A poll signal is transmitted from a monitoring device arranged in a mobile telephone or similar, to a carrier device arranged on the monitored item. The poll signal has predetermined characteristics identifying the monitoring device and the carrier device. A... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080252454 - Clip chip: A solution to RFID privacy concerns as these concerns relate to consumer goods. The inventive system of this application is known as Clip Chip. It surrenders control of the administration of privacy of personal information from the retailer to the consumer of retail goods. This is accomplished by splitting the... Agent: James Neil Rodgers

20080252458 - Electronic device: An electronic device including an electronic device body, a remote unit, an identification unit and a tag is provided. The remote unit has a first switch. The identification unit is disposed in the electronic device body, and the tag is disposed in the remote unit. When the remote unit is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080252457 - Electronic vehicle tag: The present invention consists of an electronic vehicle tag (EVT), which is preferably 12×6 inches. It consists of an encasement mountable by 4 screws to a motor vehicle. The front face is comprised of an electronic paper display technology, which requires no power consumption to maintain its image. The electronic... Agent: W. David Findlay

20080252456 - Methods and apparatus for dynamically authenticated identification: Methods and apparatus for visually authenticating an entity which displays a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a locator that determines when a radio frequency (RF) receiver is present within a vicinity. The apparatus also includes a server configured to identify a security... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080252459 - Methods and systems of a multiple radio frequency network node rfid tag: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tag that contains multiple Radio Frequency (RF) network nodes that may include memory storage for the RFID tag, the memory storage may include one time programmable (OTP) memory and many time programmable (MTP) memory... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080252455 - Thermal radio frequency identification system and method: An improved solution for radio frequency identification (RFID) systems is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, the RFID tag includes: a power source; a data storage repository; a radio frequency (RF) transmitting element configured to transmit data from the data storage repository, and electrically attached to the power source;... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080252460 - Method and device for protection against remote readout of goods identification data: Prior to the transfer the article has a label on which an electronic chip with a coupling element and an electrical antenna coupled to the coupling element are disposed. After registration of the goods identification data, the coupling between the coupling element and the electrical antenna is diminished or eliminated... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080252461 - Identification-medium-equipped article, true-false decision on such article, and commodity distribution control method: Consequently, an identification medium for true-false decision on an article and a fastening product, and an identification medium for commodity distribution control on the article can be respectively mounted on the article. Furthermore, secrecy in the identification medium for commodity distribution control can be secured by removing the identification medium... Agent: Everest Intellectual Property Law Group

20080252463 - Radio frequency identification tags for digital storage discs: A universal low cost radio frequency identification (RFID) tag for use with data storage discs includes an RFID chip, e.g., 2.45 GHz mu-RFID chip, coupled to a linear dipole antenna. The antenna length is reduced in length from the expected length for an optimally tuned antenna corresponding to the operating... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080252462 - Rfid tag: An RFID tag according to the present invention includes a first antenna on which an IC chip is mounted and a second antenna extending from an end of the first antenna in a direction at right angles to the first antenna. The first antenna has an arbitrarily electrical length and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080252464 - Palatability monitoring system: A palatability monitoring system and method of use including at least one food monitoring station having at least one food container each with a reader and measurement device, a plurality of transponders readable by the reader, each transponder being associated with one of a plurality of animals; and a central... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080252465 - System for detecting an empty vehicle seat: A system for detecting an empty vehicle seat includes an emitter mounted in the vehicle seat and a sensor for detecting changes in radiation produced by the emitter, wherein the changes in radiation may indicate whether an object is in the vehicle seat. A heater may be mounted in the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080252466 - System and method for implementing active safety counter measures for an impaired driver: Various methods and systems are disclosed for implementing active safety countermeasures in vehicles when it is determined that the driver is impaired.... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC Ford Global Technologies, Inc.

20080252467 - Insulator for tube having conductive case: One embodiment includes an electromagnetic sensor which includes a header, an anode connected to a first terminal extending through the header, the anode in electrical isolation from the header, a cathode connected to a second terminal extending through the header, the cathode in electrical isolation from the header, a conductive... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080252468 - Manipulation protection for a fire detector: A method for differentiating between a fire and the manipulation of a fire detector. The fire detector has at least two sensor units, each of which contains a light source and a light collector. A cover plate is formed with at least two light exit and entry windows. The device... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080252469 - Container power sensing system and method: An automated and/or remote method for identifying and/or changing the source of power for these generator sets, which may apply to any environment where there are alternative sources of power available which must be managed remotely (such as for other powered containers not used for refrigeration transport).... Agent: Leo Stanger

20080252470 - Leak detectors and leak detection methods: Leak detectors and leak detection methods (20) using a self contained unit having a pressure sensor (15) configured to be connected to an enclosed volume to be maintained at a pressure different from atmospheric pressure, an audible soung generator (18) and a LED (26), the audible soung generator (18) and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080252471 - Method and system for reliably detecting structure and water system leaks: A method and system for reliably detecting structure and water system leaks incorporates motion-sensing for determining whether there is activity in a building is occupied and measures humidity of the inside of the building. If there is no activity in the building, and an unexpected level of humidity or sudden... Agent: Mitch Harris, LLC - General

20080252472 - Automatic liquid level monitoring apparatus: An automatic liquid level monitoring apparatus. A flexible circuit board is attached to a resilient base plate. A light transmitter is disposed on and electrically connected to the flexible circuit board. A light detector is disposed on and electrically connected to the flexible circuit board. The light detector opposes the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080252473 - Smoke detector: A smoke detector replaces the americium source of alpha particles with a field emission device using carbon nanotubes as the field emitters, or some other field emitter, in order to provide an ionization of die air potentially caring smoke particles through the smoke detector.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080252474 - Proximity sensor and proximity sensing method: A proximity sensor includes a sense electrode having a first capacitance to ground, wherein the first capacitance varies in response to proximity of an object to be sensed; a first sense circuit which provides a first pulse signal having a pulse width determined in accordance with the first capacitance; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252475 - Monitoring method and apparatus using asynchronous, one-way transmission from sensor to base station: A monitoring system is disclosed, which includes a base station and at least one sensor unit that is separate from the base station. The sensor unit resides in a dormant state that uses no power, until it is awaked by the triggering of vibration-sensitive switch. Once awakened, the sensor may... Agent: Nasa John F. Kennedy Space Center

20080252476 - Closeable communications device and method for automatically opening such a device: A method (1000) for automatically opening a closeable communications device and a closeable communications device (100). The closeable communications device (100) has a housing having two biased housing portions (210,220) movably mounted to each other to allow relative movement of the two portions between a closed position and an opened... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080252477 - Method and apparatus for authenticating use of a battery in a wireless communication device: A method for communicating authenticity of a battery in a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device executes an authentication process to determine the authenticity of the battery used in the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device establishes a communication link with a wireless network. The wireless communication device... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080252478 - Electronic apparatus, remote controller and remote control system: An electronic apparatus is remotely controlled based on a remote control signal transmitted from a remote controller using radio wave. The electronic apparatus contains a communication module that receives the remote control signal transmitted from the remote controller and an electronic apparatus main body that performs predetermined processing based on... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080252479 - Depth measurement by distributed sensors: A downhole device, position verifiable string includes a downhole device; a string in operable communication with downhole device; and a plurality of sensor units each sensing at least one of acceleration and strain in the string and spaced from each other along the string from downhole device to a remote... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080252480 - System and method for sensing misalignment of a railroad signaling system: A system is provided for sensing misalignment of a railroad signaling system. The railroad signaling system includes at least one railroad signal coupled to at least one elongated member adjacent to a railroad. The system includes at least one transmitter positioned within at least one elongated member, and at least... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20080252481 - Method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting the resolution of telemetry signals: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that dynamically adjusts data resolution during proactive-fault-monitoring in a computer system. During operation, the system temporarily stores high-resolution data for a telemetry signal from the computer system in a buffer. The system then generates low-resolution data for the telemetry signal from... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080252482 - System and method of modifying programmable blind spot detection sensor ranges with vision sensor input: A continuously programmable Blind Spot Detection System for vehicles that use continuous vision sensor input to determine lane offset and determine a maximum range limit for radar sensors to define an area of interest for declaration of objects within the blind spot area.... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC Ford Global Technologies, Inc.

20080252484 - Network message and alert selection apparatus and method: A method of selecting one or more of a plurality of messages for a user, each message associated with one or more particular locations. The method comprises: monitoring journeys of the user; determining a likelihood of the user travelling to the respective particular locations based on the monitored journeys; and... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080252483 - Radio frequency transponders embedded in surfaces: Objects containing radio frequency transponders, such as RFID tags, can be encoded with information and mixed with a substance. The mixed objects and substance can be applied to a surface such as a road, such that a vehicle traveling over the surface may later read encoded information stored in the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080252485 - Advanced automobile accident detection data recordation system and reporting system: A system for monitoring a location to detect and report a vehicular incident, comprising a transducer for detecting acoustic waves at the location, and having an audio output; a processor for determining a probable occurrence or impending occurrence of a vehicular incident, based at least upon said audio output; an... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20080252486 - Method for determining the ability to enter a parking space and a parking assist device: Disclosed is a method of determining the ability to enter a parking gap starting from an initial position of a vehicle. The negotiability is determined by way of two characteristic diagrams (ymin(δ,θ,x); ymax(δ,θ,x)), with the two characteristic diagrams (ymin(δ,θ,x); ymax(δ,θ,x)) indicating for several predetermined sets of values of first vehicle... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20080252487 - System and method for monitoring and updating speed-by-street data: System and method for identifying speeding violations, comprising determining a current speed and a current location of a vehicle, determining a posted speed limit for the current location from a speed-by-street database, comparing the current speed of the vehicle to the posted speed limit, and evaluating whether the current speed... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080252488 - Vehicle vision system: A vehicular vision system includes at least one imaging sensor for sensing images of objects in a forward field of view of the imaging sensor. The imaging system includes a control responsive to an output of the imaging sensor. The control modulates at least one headlamp of the vehicle in... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080252489 - Display generation system: A display generation system that is able to generate display signals for an underlay image with at least one embedded safety pattern and display images for an overlay image. The display generation system and method are able to determine whether there are any anomalies or graphical errors when an overlay... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080246581 - Electronic machine, connected machine identifying method for electronic machine and control system: An electronic machine connectable to a different apparatus is disclosed. The electronic machine includes a resistance, a connector to be connected to the different apparatus, and a detecting section that detects one state from multiple states based on the resistance value of the resistance and the resistance value of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080246582 - Coding of laser fibers: For operating a laser device to which an identification code is assigned in combination with a laser fiber depending on an identification code assigned to the laser fiber, the identification code assigned to the laser fiber is generated depending on the identification code of the laser device and compared by... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080246584 - Locking digital pen: A locking digital pen system includes memory means which is available for storing user passwords for a plurality of users. When a user wishes to activate the digital pen, the user is enabled to use the digital pen to enter a password. After verification of the password, the pen is... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080246585 - Vehicle control system: The invention relates to a vehicle control system, in particular authorising access to the vehicle by controlling locks and/or actuators operating the vehicle doors. A first wireless communications channel is established between a portable identification unit (7) and a controller (1) mounted in the vehicle. A communications system comprises a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080246583 - Access control system: A method of switching a door latch in a secure area, a relay module, and an access control system are disclosed. Encrypted communications from a reader in an unsecured area are decrypted, and the decrypted communications are compared to an expected code. A micro-controller may implement the decrypting and comparing... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080246586 - Portable communication machine and vehicular communication system using the same: A portable communication machine includes RF data generating means, RF wireless transmitting means for transmitting transmission data as an RF signal, RF wireless receiving means for receiving an RF signal transmitted from a vehicle-mounted machine, RF data analyzing means for analyzing received data, key operating means for instructing to control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080246587 - Electronic lock box with transponder based communications: An electronic lock box contains a secure compartment for storing dwelling keys to a structure, and is typically mounted outside the dwelling structure. When properly instructed, usually with a coded message, the dwelling key can be accessed by opening the door to the secure compartment; such message can be manually... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20080246589 - Laminate device having voided structure for carrying electronic element, such as label for rfid tag: The invention concerns a laminate device with a substrate of the type having a front face adapted to receive printed information, an electronic device such as RFID tag, and an adhesive layer disposed on a back face of the substrate. The laminate device can be made with a voided or... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080246588 - Pneumatic tire: Provided is a pneumatic tire with which a search time for a transponder can be reduced, and with which, for a passive transponder functioning with energy transmitted from the outside, efficiency of energy transmission can be enhanced. The pneumatic tire of the present invention provided with a transponder has an... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080246590 - Information apparatus with rfid tag and control method thereof: An information apparatus having an RFID tag and a control method thereof. The information apparatus includes the RFID tag part which comprises an RF receiver receiving an external RF signal, an RF transmitter transmitting an RF signal to outside, a logic part performing controlling and comparison, and a tag memory... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080246591 - Test head device: There is disclosed a test head device for testing the functionality of a large number of RFID chips arranged in smart labels (17) within a smart label production apparatus by means of a data reading and/or data writing process, wherein the smart labels (17), each comprising a first antenna (10a-10e),... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080246592 - System and method for managing customer queuing: A system and method for managing customer queuing is provided. A new request is received from a user. The new request is assigned to a queue. Placed requests waiting in the queue ahead of the new request are counted. The placed requests are compared to a request threshold. An upsell... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080246593 - Sounding lamp for digital equipment: A sounding lamp includes a control module, a transmission seat, a connecting interface, a sounding unit, and an illuminating unit. The control module includes a micro control unit, at least one transmission connector, a sound effect control circuit and a light regulation control circuit. Thus, the sounding lamp integrates the... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080246594 - A headlight system and a method for operating a headlight system: A method is provided for operating a headlight system in a motor vehicle, wherein the headlights of the headlight system encompass a first operating mode with a first response behavior and a second operating mode with a second response behavior, which is different from the first response behavior. The method... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gme)

20080246596 - Air spring distance indicating system and method: A distance indicating system includes a transmitting portion, a transceiver spaced a distance from the transmitting portion, and a receiving portion supported in spaced relation to the transceiver. The transmitting portion broadcasting a first electromagnetic wave. The transceiver receiving the first electromagnetic wave and transmitting a second electromagnetic wave to... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080246595 - Lane guide for motor vehicles: Devices and methods for aiding drivers in properly positioning a motor vehicle within the lane of a roadway. Devices include visible indicia displayed on the vehicle windshield. The indicia can be positioned such that when the vehicle is properly positioned with respect to the left and/or right side lane marker,... Agent: Moore & Hansen, Pllp

20080246597 - Method, system, and apparatus for providing an event reminder: A product event timer for use with a consumer product is provided that includes a housing; timer circuitry incorporated with the housing, which includes a countdown timer; and a sensory signal coupled to the timer circuitry and activated upon receiving an activation signal from the timer circuitry; where a user... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080246598 - Interactive programmable container security and compliance system: A monitoring system and method comprises a container adapted to house contents therein and a sensor device attached to the container, wherein the sensor device comprises at least one sensor that collects past and present data of the container, wherein the data comprises container content identification data, container geographic location... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20080246599 - Hand hygiene compliance system: A system and method of encouraging compliance of hand hygiene in an environment where users move from zone to zone and are required to perform hand hygiene between the zones. Users carry a wearable zone sensor which detects zones, detects hand hygiene actions, logs time of changing zones, and hand... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080246600 - Warning system: The invention proposes a hazard alarm system for buildings, said system having evaluation units, which are in the form of freely programmable control units, and a building management system. As a result of being connected in series, the evaluation units are connected to the building management system by means of... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080246601 - Network for combat control of ground-based units: The invention relates to a network for combat control of ground-based units, such as combat vehicles, in real time, in which information is obtained concerning the units comprised in the network for the evaluation of threats and the calculation of a response. According to the invention, the units are divided... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080246603 - Direction searching system: The object of the invention is providing a direction searching system for displaying a direction of an objective car location only by easy operations. The solution is as follows. During a switch is being pressed in the first scan, a radio signal from a in-vehicle equipment 1 loaded in an... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080246602 - Methods, systems and computer program products for feature and profile management in portable electronic devices: Methods of managing features in a portable electronic device are provided. Use of a portable electronic device by a user is monitored over a period of time. Adaptive settings are established for features and/or profiles in the portable electronic device based on the monitored use of the portable electronic device.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080246604 - Wireless interface module: A system and method that allows remote monitoring by satellite of cargo carried on a mobile conveyance. The system and method provide for a wireless information module (WIM) on the conveyance for transmitting and receiving data from a plurality of wireless devices on the conveyance over a short range wireless... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080246606 - Display monitoring systems: A consumer electronic device (CED) having a display and including at least one light sensor for recalibrating said display at intervals, wherein said display and said at least one light sensor are mounted within different parts of a unitary housing such that when said CED is not in use said... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080246605 - Methods and apparatus for providing multiple communications services with unified parental notification and/or control features: Methods and apparatus for supporting real time parental screening of a variety of different types of communications which may be directed to or sent from children are described. The methods and apparatus may be used with voice, text messaging and/or E-mail communications individually or as part of a unified parental... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080246607 - Method of detecting lock bumping: A method of detecting an attempted lock bumping and providing a notification that an attempted lock bumping has occurred. A lock bumping detection device is placed on or in a door or door jamb near the lock. The device includes a sensor which senses energy and generates a signal that... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080246608 - Multi-functional burglar-proof lockset assembly structure: A multi-functional burglar-proof lockset assembly structure includes at least a lockset, a burglar-proof alarm circuit, and a personal alert device. The lockset body can be locked on a steering wheel to restrict rotation. When the lockset is locked, the burglar-proof alarm circuit in the lockset is activated to operate, and... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080246609 - Rf identification and security system: The identification and security system is for an item (10) particularly a data storage disk, CD, DVD, etc. being borrowed by system user (11) from a library. The item comprises a data storage disk (16) mounted in a storage case (20). RF transponder means (25, 30) are mounted by the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080246610 - Rf enabled surgical cart and use of same in operating room environment: Activities of individuals and the movements/usage of products are monitored in an operating room during a surgical procedure by disposing in the operating room a first transceiver operating in a long wavelength mode in which 99.99% or more of radiated energy is in the form of a magnetic field, for... Agent: Marina Larson & Associates, LLC

20080246611 - Method and apparatus for detecting the presence of rfid devices and modifying the same: An apparatus for detecting and interacting with radio frequency identification devices, including a transceiver, a scanner operationally connected to the transceiver and tuned to scan a pre-selected set of frequencies typically associated with RFID tags, a microprocessor operationally connected to the transceiver, a user interface operationally connected to the microprocessor,... Agent: Brannon & Associates PC

20080246612 - Hand-held tester: A hand-held tester includes a testing kit and a measuring machine, wherein the testing kit has, mounted thereon, a wave absorbing material, an emitting antenna, and a RFID tag. The wave absorbing material is mounted around the inner side of the testing kit, and the emitting antenna and the RFID... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080246613 - System and method for wireless security theft prevention: A merchandise security system in accordance with one embodiment comprising a security tag configured to be attached to an item; a receiver system configured to receive signals from the security tag and capable of generating location information for the security tag; and a security tag tracking system for receiving location... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080246616 - Media case and circuit pattern sheet: The media case 1 can house disk media 50 provided with an RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing). This media case 1 includes an antenna element 51a being formed on its back plane to exchange an electromagnetic wave signal with the outside of the media case 1; a waveguide... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080246614 - Radio frequency identification tags: A radio frequency identification tag comprising first and second antenna elements, wherein the first and second antenna elements are configurable to be, in use, positioned to lie in substantially different planes.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080246615 - Rfid antenna cupped reflector: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for radio frequency identification (RFID) reader antennas are described. In as aspect, a reader antenna includes a reflecting element and a radiating element. The reflecting element has a body that defines a cavity. The radiating element is positioned in the cavity. The radiating element transmits a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080246617 - Monitor apparatus, system and method: An apparatus, system and method which use a portable sensor to monitor the physical and mental reactions of a person in motion. The physical and mental reactions in motion will be transformed into the related physical and mental characteristic vectors, which are used to build up a personalized physical and... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080246618 - Fire detector: A fire detector including a base and a fire detector insert connectable to the base. The fire detector insert is connectable to the base by an axial movement and detachable from the base by a subsequent axial movement.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080246619 - Explosive device detection system and method: In one embodiment of the disclosure, an explosive device detection system includes a thermal imaging camera and at least one radio frequency receiver that is coupled to a signal processing circuit. The thermal imaging camera is operable to produce a first electrical signal indicative of thermal energy radiated by an... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080246620 - Device and apparatus for detecting moisture: A device for detecting the presence of bodily fluid, the device including a detector (1) means having two spaced apart electrodes (2, 3), each electrode is connected to a signal generating means via a lead (6, 7). The electrodes are encased in a flexible non-conductive material with each including at... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Welsh & Katz

20080246621 - Leak control system: A leak detection system includes a first water container, a water detection probe disposed in close proximity to the first water container, the probe having a sensing circuit for generating electrical signals when moisture is sensed by the probe, a water input conduit coupled with the first water container for... Agent: Chan Law Group Lc

20080246622 - Analyzing smoke or other emissions with pattern recognition: A system and method for analyzing smoke or other emissions are provided. An image is analyzed and processed to identify characteristics associated with the emission, such as color, densities, dispersion rates, fuel mixture characteristics, and other suitable analysis factors. If the analysis indicates that abnormal conditions exist or that any... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080246623 - Light scattering type smoke detector: A light scattering type smoke sensor includes a sensor body, light-emitter for emitting light toward an open smoke-sensing space and outputting a light-received signal according to the amount of scattering light received, and a fire judging unit for judging whether fire occurs or not on the basis of the amount... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20080246624 - Heat-dissipating system having dust detecting function: A heat-dissipating system configured to dissipate heat from an electrical device, includes a heat sink having a plate on which dust is likely to accumulate if dust is present, a light-emitting element arranged on the plate of the heat sink, and an alarm. The alarm device is arranged on the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080246625 - Non-contact temperature-measuring device and the method thereof: This invention provides a non-contact temperature-measuring device including a distance sensor unit, an alarm unit, a temperature sensor unit, a microprocessor unit and a display unit. The distance sensor unit measures the distance between the device and a target. The alarm unit gives an alarm when the distance sensor unit... Agent: Venable LLP

20080246626 - Data transaction direction detection in an adaptive two-wire bus: Techniques for improving the quality or fidelity of a digital signal transmitted via a two-wire bus interconnect utilizing an open-terminal configuration at one or both end devices of the bus interconnect are disclosed. An intermediate two-wire bus is used to connect two open-terminal-based two-wire busses. A bus adapter device is... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080246627 - Marine telemetry and two way communication system: A marine telemetry system can comprise a central processing unit (CPU) with data processing and storage capacity. The system can further comprise sensors and/or other electronic accessories such as radars, fish finders, weather stations, etc. The system can be operated by a touch-screen display. The system can perform the measuring,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080246628 - System and method for connecting electrical devices using fiber optic serial communication: A system and method for communicating between serially connected electrical devices of a network is provided. The network includes a series of electrical devices, and fiber optic connectors between electrical devices of the series of electrical devices forming a closed communication ring in which output of each electrical device is... Agent: Electro Industries/ Gaugetech C/o Casella & Hespos, LLP

20080246629 - Mobile devices as centers for health information, monitoring and services: A mobile device with local and remote services and applications for collecting, storing, analyzing and delivering health data to medical professionals and others. The mobile device communicatively connects to sensors attached to a body to collect health data and remote servers to send raw and massaged data for medical analysis.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080246630 - Method and equipment for illuminating a school safety zone: A system for indicating along a length of a roadway that a reduced speed limit is in force, as e.g. in a school safety zone on days when school is in session. The system provides patterns of illumination along one or more portions of the length of the roadway, patterns... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080246631 - Method and apparatus for self-powered vehicular sensor node using magnetic sensor and radio transceiver: A vehicular sensor node, circuit apparatus and their operations. Power from power source is controlled for delivery to radio transceiver and magnetic sensor, based upon a task trigger and task identifier. The radio transceiver and the magnetic sensor are operated based upon the task identifier, when the task trigger is... Agent: Earle Jennings

20080246632 - Aviation rf receiver front end multiplexing method and apparatus: A group multiplexed output (208) operably couples to each unique intermediate frequency received signal output as corresponds to a plurality of aviation radio frequency receiver front ends (502). By one approach, this can comprise, in particular, multiplexing, in frequency, each of the discrete received signal outputs for each of the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080246633 - Display system for an aircraft: The invention concerns a display system for an aircraft. The display system (1) comprises means for automatic reconfiguration (4), upon detecting failure of a screen (E1 to En) of said system for displaying the image which is associated with the failed screen on an associated valid screen having lesser priority... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080238606 - Near-field miniature coupler: A near-field coupler for a RFID system is provided. The coupler is configured to selectively communicate with a targeted transponder from among a group of multiple adjacent transponders. The coupler includes a conductive strip terminated by a load. The load is for matching an input impedance of the coupler to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080238607 - Fan speed control system: A fan speed control system for a machine is disclosed. The control system may include a fan to provide a flow of coolant to the machine. The system may further include a first sensor configured to generate a first signal indicative of an operational parameter of the machine, a second... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080238608 - Anti-theft system and method: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an anti-theft method comprising: determining whether a user's authorization parameters match stored verification parameters; selecting a feature of a device to affect if the user's authorization parameters do not match the stored verification parameters; and gradually affecting the selected feature of the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080238609 - Electric hand tool device and battery pack therefor: The invention relates to a battery-operated electric hand tool device (2) comprising control electronics (14), a wirelessly and contactlessly responding transceiver (12), and a storage unit (16) in which an authorization code is stored, a locked mode of operation and a released mode of operation being distinguishable. In order to... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080238610 - Apparatus and method using near field communications: A near field communications enabled mobile communication is used to provide or receive information.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080238612 - Direct peripheral communication for restricted mode operation: A computer that self-administers operating in restricted and unrestricted operating modes boots from a main processor and operates normally in the unrestricted operating mode and operates from an alternate processor in a security module in the restricted operating mode. The alternate processor may communicate directly with peripheral devices such as... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080238611 - Authentication of source, plus, for goods and services system, method, and components: A unique identifier is created for each article (clothing, accessories, jewels, fragrances, manufactures, etc.) for which the provider of the article desires to authenticate its Brand source to the party acquiring the article to substantiate to that acquiring party that they are receiving a genuine article. The unique identifier is... Agent: Morris I. Pollack

20080238613 - Using rfid tags with an incorporated chip to identify and locate persons: A procedure to identify and locate people that, starting with known methods of fingerprint recognition, classifies the prints according to the Vucetich method (D), subclassifies them according to the previous classification (E), converts them into alphanumeric codes (I), and then converts these into barcodes (J). The procedure includes a grid... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080238614 - Method and system for securing and recovering a wireless communication device: A method of securing a wireless device, includes: receiving, from a subscriber, a request to activate one or more security features and recovery functions of a missing wireless device; determining whether the wireless device is powered on; setting, in the event the wireless device is not powered on, a flag... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Endicott

20080238615 - Media enhanced shopping systems with electronic queuing: A media enhanced shopping cart system comprises a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a base tray, a plurality of wheels, a read component for performing a proximity scan of the shopping cart, a locationing component for determining a location of the shopping cart within a store... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080238616 - Protocol for message delivery among independently evolving processes: The present invention relates to a method for message delivery from a sender process to a receiver process within a computer system, comprising performing an atomic check for the receiver process and a parent of the receiver process, returning a first status of the receiver process and a second status... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080238619 - Active/passive rfid tag: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes an antenna section, a power recovery circuit, a signal detection circuit, a processing module, a transmitter section, and a battery. The power recovery circuit generates a power supply voltage from an inbound RFID signal and the signal detection circuit recovers an inbound signal... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238617 - Detector logic and radio identification device and method for enhancing terminal operations: An electronic device operable with a radio frequency identification device operable with a detector logic and a method for operating the electronic device with a radio frequency identification device and a detector logic is provided. Firstly, a detection event is registered by the detector logic. The detected event relates to... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20080238626 - Far field rfid reader with blocking: A far field radio frequency identification (RFID) reader includes a baseband processing module, a transmitter section, and a receiver section. The receiver section includes a low noise amplifier module, a down conversion module, and a current mode blocking circuit. The low noise amplifier module amplifies an inbound RF signal to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238621 - Multi-mode rfid reader architecture: A multi-mode RFID reader operates in both far field mode and near field mode. The multi-mode RFID reader includes a transmitter section, a receiver section, a transmit multiplexer and a receive multiplexer. Both the transmit multiplexer and the receive multiplexer are configurably coupled to a far field antenna structure and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238625 - Near field communication front-end: A near field communication front-end includes an up conversion module, a plurality of coils, and a down conversion module. The up conversion module is coupled to convert an outbound symbol stream into a plurality of outbound signals based on a frequency-space encoding scheme. The plurality of coils is coupled to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238620 - Radio-frequency tag communication device: A radio-frequency tag communication device arranged to transmit a transmitted signal toward a radio-frequency tag and to receive a reply signal transmitted from the radio-frequency tag in response to the transmitted signal, for thereby effecting radio communication with the radio-frequency tag, the radio-frequency tag communication device including (a) a receiver... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080238624 - Rfid reader with active blocking rejection in receiver: An RFID reader is operable to receive an inbound RF signal from an RFID tag during transmission of an outbound RF signal. The inbound RF signal from the RFID tag is a modulated, backscattered signal that includes a desired RF signal component and a blocking RF signal component. The receiver... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238622 - Rfid reader with receiver clock derived from transmitter output: An RFID reader is operable to receive an inbound RF signal during transmission of an outbound RF signal. The inbound RF signal may be a modulated, backscattered signal from a tag that has substantially the same frequency as the outbound RF signal or at a different frequency from the outbound... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238627 - Sample carrier device incorporating radio frequency identification, and method: An apparatus for associating information with a carrier and/or at least one biological reagent is provided. The apparatus can include a carrier adapted to retain at least one biological reagent and at least one non-silicon Radio Frequency Identification Tag (RFID). The RFID tag can comprise information in the form of... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20080238618 - Strong typing of components in rfid business processes: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates verifying data within a radio frequency identification (RFID) business process. A radio frequency identification (RFID) business process can include at least one component that can receive an event from a logical source. A strong typing module can employ... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080238623 - Transceiver front-end having tx and rx isolation: A transceiver front-end comprises a transmitter section a receiver section, and an isolation circuit. The transmitter section includes an oscillation module that generates a radio frequency (RF) oscillation and a power amplifier module that amplifies and modulates the RF oscillation in accordance with outbound modulation information to produce an outbound... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238628 - Frequency synthesizer and frequency synthesizing method: A frequency synthesizer for providing clock signals with different frequencies for corresponding band transceivers and associated frequency synthesizing method are provided. The frequency synthesizer includes a phase-locked loop module having a single voltage controlled oscillator, a first frequency divider and a second frequency divider. At first, the single voltage controlled... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080238629 - Rf transceiver system with adjustable transmission parameters and methods for use therewith: A circuit includes a transceiver coupled to transmit an outbound signal in accordance with a plurality of transmit parameters to at least one remote station and receive a inbound signal from the at least one remote station. The transceiver detects a packet transmission failure, selects one of a plurality of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238630 - System and method for varying response amplitude of radio transponders: A system and method are provided for modifying the effective reading range of an radio frequency identification tag. The tag, a chip based tag, includes an antenna and a chip in communication with the antenna. The chip includes circuitry including field effect transistors that can modify the effective reading range... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080238631 - Color coded rfid tags for surgical instruments: Color coding tape having one or more RFID tags are attached to surgical instruments or other medical devices. Information relating to the medical devices can be written to and/or read from the RFID tags. The medical devices can be usually identified by the color coding tape.... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080238633 - Computer system with id tag: A computer system (1) includes a housing. An RFID tag (4) can be placed as a rating plate on the housing of the computer system (1).... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080238632 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: In an IC tag, when a semiconductor integrated circuit device is activated, an operation control unit sets existence/nonexistence of a communication distance limitation for reducing a communication distance to a state management unit. If the communication distance limitation is not set, a switch unit is turned ON and a demodulated... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080238634 - System and method for continual cable thermal monitoring using cable characteristic considerations in power over ethernet: A system and method for continual cable thermal monitoring using cable characteristic considerations in Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. Cable heating in PoE applications is detected through changes in electrical characteristics of the cable itself. By periodically monitoring the electrical characteristics such as insertion loss or cross talk of the... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080238635 - Force feedback for input devices: A input system, a method and an input device for providing a tactile feedback to a finger to acknowledge an activation of a touch surface of the input device, comprising at least three elongate objects of shape memory metal, each of the objects being arranged to cooperate operatively with at... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080238636 - Vehicle surveillance and communication system: A vehicle surveillance system has a plurality of side-light units mounted on opposite sides of a truck, bus, train or a similar long vehicle. The side-light units form an RF communication network on the vehicle. Each side-light unit comprises a day-running light source, a sensor for defining a surveillance zone... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080238637 - Wireless access system and method: The disclosed embodiments include a wireless access system and method that enable the transmission of wireless access signals having a desired power level. In some embodiments, the wireless access system determines the amount of supply current drawn by certain devices and causes adjustment of the wireless access signal power level... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20080238639 - Automobile auxiliary light testing device: A testing device operable to test a tow vehicle's trailer light control system with the testing device operable to determine whether or not, subsequent to being operably connected to a tow trailer wiring harness of the tow vehicle, the tow vehicle's trailer light control system can transmit the required voltage... Agent: Raymond M. Galasso Galasso & Associates Lp

20080238638 - Trailer hitch positioning system: A system is provided for aligning a vehicle with a trailer. The system includes an angular alignment apparatus and a vertical alignment apparatus. The angular alignment apparatus includes a visible light emitting source and a reference indicia. The vertical alignment apparatus includes a light transmitter and receiver, a reflector and... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080238640 - Visible laser beam projection system: A visible laser beam projection system determines a target point of position to which a visible laser beam is to be projected, a start point and a trajectory from the start point and the target point based on data of conditions inside and outside of a vehicle. The system starts... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080238641 - Device, vehicle and method for detecting a collision of an object on a collision location detection region of a vehicle: The device includes a first and a second structural parameter for a first or a second hollow body. At least one of the parameters changes along the collision location detection region in such a way that the quotient and/or the difference between the two signals of the sensors essentially continuously... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080238643 - Cargo carrier sensor system: A cargo carrier sensor system including a sensor configured for wireless communication with an associated indicator. The sensor can be attached to rooftop cargo and/or an associated cargo carrier. A detection signal is generated and transmitted by the sensor. When the sensor detects the presence of an obstacle, the sensor... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080238642 - Vehicle system and method for preparing an in-vehicle device: A method for preparing an in-vehicle device includes monitoring a communication bus for one or more messages. The method also includes determining if at least one of the one or more messages corresponds with a message in a list of messages indicative of a change in vehicle state. Data is... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080238644 - Device for detecting the condition of a tire on a wheel: A device for detecting the condition of a tire (2) on a wheel (3) of a vehicle (1), having at least one sensor (4) which ascertains condition data of the tire (2) and outputs them to a receiving unit of the vehicle (1), is propose in which at least one... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080238645 - Mehtod for alarming a decrease in tire air-pressure and device thereof, and program thereof: Means for solution is a method for alarming a decrease in tire air-pressure that informs the decrease in tire air-pressure based on the rotational speed obtained from tires loaded on a four-wheeled vehicle, a device thereof and a program thereof, wherein the influence of turning and the influence of acceleration... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080238646 - Brake system: A brake system includes a master cylinder which generates brake fluid pressure by a braking operation of a driver, an electric motor driven slave cylinder that generates brake fluid pressure according to an electrical signal based on the braking operation of the driver, a vehicle wheel cylinder for braking a... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080238647 - Vehicle including seat belt: The disclosure provides a vehicle including a seat belt that is brought into a fastened state as fastening operation is performed through preliminary operation that is performed before the seat belt is fastened. The vehicle includes a first transmitter that transmits a predetermined signal by radio when the fastening operation... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080238648 - Method and apparatus for vehicle brake light control: A method for controlling the brake lights of a vehicle includes determining vehicle deceleration potential and modulating brake light activation based upon the vehicle deceleration potential, the modulating comprising changing at least one of brake light intensity and flashing of the brake lights.... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, PLLC

20080238649 - Warning light: A warning light. A generally planar lamp assembly has a plurality of lamps mounted to a front surface thereof and further includes a control portion having a wireless link. A programming device is configured to wirelessly transfer information to the wireless link for storage in the control portion, such that... Agent: Eley Law Firm Co.

20080238650 - Configurable networked user interface and switch pack: A printed circuit board (PCB) has a plurality of switch interfaces on its top surface. Each interface is an array of sensors, such as proximity sensors, hall-effect sensors, or a series of inductor coils. The sensors in each array are closely mounted and are all the same for a given... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080238651 - Self-contained wireless security sensor collective system and method: A system includes a plurality of sensors and a monitoring system that are capable of wireless communication. A first of the sensors senses information relating to a specified condition and sends a wireless message with information relating to the specified condition to a second of the sensors. The first sensor... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080238652 - Time delay circuit and time to digital converter: A time delay circuit is disclosed and includes a delay line with a first delay circuit and at least a second delay circuit connected downstream. An interpolation circuit is used to generate intermediate signals derived by delayed successive signals in the delay line.... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080238653 - Method and apparatus for identifying an electronic appliance: Methods and systems for identifying an appliance comprising receiving indication of an appliance coupling to a communication port on a communication network and retrieving, over the communication network, a first identification assigned to the appliance during manufacturing of the appliance. The appliance is validated using the first identification and a... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20080238654 - Optical and copper transceiver identifier: A hand-held-transceiver identifier device includes a processor device contained in a housing. A port is contained in the housing to receive a transceiver. A display is contained in the housing. Upon insertion of the transceiver in the port, the device interrogates the transceiver to obtain specification information. A computer-implemented method... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (ibm)

20080238655 - Arrangements for integrated circuit power management: A configurable power control system is disclosed. The power control system can include a control module, an enable/disable module coupled to a power rail (i.e. an internal power line) to enable and disable power to the power rail. The system can also include a sequencer module coupled to the first... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080238656 - Isolated resistive signature detection for powered devices: In one embodiment, a load connected to power sourcing equipment (PSE) compatible with a Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard is characterized to determine whether the load corresponds to a valid powered device (PD). A switching signal having a first frequency is generated on the isolated side and used to generate... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080238657 - Method for monitoring a group of objects and associated arrangement: A method for monitoring a group of objects, and an arrangement to implement the method includes providing each object of the group to be monitored with a radio node of a self-networking radio network, whereby each radio node within the group has a unique identification. The radio nodes of the... Agent: Venable LLP

20080238659 - System and method for providing emergency information: A monitoring system that allows for a handheld device to transmit information to a monitoring station indicative of an emergency situation within a facility. The handheld device is provided as a keyfob and transmits a wireless RF signal to transceivers variously positioned throughout the facility. Based on identifying which transceiver... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080238660 - System and method of remotely monitoring a plurality of individuals: In embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods of remotely monitoring a plurality of individuals may include providing a plurality of monitoring objects, wherein each monitoring object is associated with the environment of one of the plurality of individuals. A sensor may be integrated into each monitoring object, wherein... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080238661 - Home locating network: A system, device and method for identifying, within a local area, a location of an electronic device, such as a mobile telephone, includes determining a signal characteristic of a wireless communication from one or more wireless devices in the local area to the electronic device, wherein determining is performed by... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080238662 - System, method, and kit for remotely monitoring an individual with a sensor-integrated picture frame: In embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for remotely monitoring an individual may include providing a sensor integrated in a monitoring object at a first location where the monitoring object may be configured as a picture frame. A sensor may be associated with an environment of an individual... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080238658 - Radio communication system: There is provided a radio communication system including a first transceiver equipped with an antenna circuit and a transmitting-receiving unit and for transmitting a data signal by an electromagnetic wave, and a second transceiver equipped with an antenna circuit, a transmitting-receiving unit, a memory unit for storing the data signal,... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080238663 - Individual management system: To provide an individual management system for managing products with the use of an automatic identification technology using a wireless communication device. In the individual management system, an individual management device is attached to a managed object, an individual identification device can wirelessly communicate with the individual management device, and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080238666 - Methods and systems for medication management: A method of monitoring a patient's compliance with a medication regimen may include identifying a patient, identifying a medication prescribed to the patient and determining one or more intake times associated with the medication. For each intake time, an alert reminding the patient to take the medication may be generated,... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080238664 - Schedule warning system, schedule warning method and medium storing schedule warning program: A schedule warning system includes a schedule managing unit that manages schedule information for at least one task item, a relating person data managing unit that manages relating person data that relates to the schedule information, a defining unit that defines a delay monitoring condition to monitor a schedule delay... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080238665 - Sensory feedback systems for non-contact electrical switches: The present invention relates to sensory feedback for non-contact electrical switching systems. Such systems may be used in conventional electrical circuits or in traditionally non-electrical switching systems, such as faucets. The non-contact electrical switching mechanism includes a motion sensor to detect motion for the purpose of changing between an on... Agent: Geoffrey E. Dobbin, Patent Attorney

20080238667 - Clothing and accessories that operate radio frequency identification enabled security devices: A wearable radio frequency identification (RFID) device is disclosed that includes a wearable housing and an RFID chip within the wearable housing. The RFID chip is configured to communicate with one or more RFID enabled security devices to activate and/or deactivate one or more security systems. The wearable RFID device... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080238668 - System and method for security monitoring between trusted neighbors: A system and method for security monitoring by a trusted neighbor is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system allows a security monitor in a first building to communicate with a building automation network in a second building to enable monitoring of a security sensor in the second building.... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080238669 - Door entry security device with electronic lock: An alarm system and method for (1) assisting a user in arming and disarming an alarm system when locking and unlocking an entry door, (2) automatically locking an entry door when arming the alarm system, and/or (3) remotely controlling an electronic lock in an entry door.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080238670 - Security device with display: A security card may include a printed portion that includes printed data fixed to a first portion of an outer surface of the card, an interface configured to receive digitally signed information from an external device, and a display located on a second portion of the outer surface of the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080238671 - Security assembly and system: An integrated system is disclosed that provides robust and uninterrupted security over a broad range of applications that features a security assembly having multiple sensory functionality for detection, identification, and analysis of a potential intruder seeking to gain unauthorized access to a secure facility. In one embodiment, the security system... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080238678 - Data gathering system for fleet management: A system for a vehicle fleet management comprises a transponder (1) located in the interior of a tire (2) or being integrated into a tire (2); a control unit (3) installed at the vehicle, the control unit (3) being configured to be able to read or receive and at least... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080238672 - Evidence tracking: A system uses a large loop antenna, connected with a transceiver operating below 1 MHz. The loop antenna is deployed from a spool to surround a crime scene, and may carry indicia communicating that it is a crime scene boundary. The system interrogates devices, including evidence bags and badged personnel,... Agent: Marina Larson & Associates, LLC

20080238676 - Location based security data provisioning and management via rfid tags: Systems and methods for securely provisioning and managing security data based on location are provided. In an installation having one or more secure locations, a physically secure container having a security data tag is provided in a secure location. Security data required to establish a secure application (e.g., secure communications... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080238675 - Rfid tag system: The present invention provides an applied RFID tag system with the RFID tag assembled between the first and second portions of an object. When the first and second portions are separated or misaligned, the RFID tag will be deformed and damaged, making it impossible to be identified with a predefined... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080238673 - Standardized mechanism for printing labels and managing templates within rfid: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates utilizing an RFID printer within a radio frequency identification (RFID) network. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one RFID printer. A standardized print component can abstract a model-specific implementation of the RFID printer to... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080238674 - System for automatically locating and manipulating positions on an object: A system for automatically locating positions on an object and uniquely identifying the object employing an electronic tag positioned in or on the object. The system utilizes a plurality of sensors to locate the electronic tag and identify the object, and triangulation techniques to locate positions on the object where... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080238677 - Transponder housing and device to mark implements, such as surgical implements, and method of using same: A transponder device and/or housing to mark a surgical implement, such as a metallic surgical instrument, is provided that comprises a non-elastic, preferably non-metallic, rigid transponder housing attachable to a portion of the surgical implement. The housing includes a transponder receiving cavity spaced at least 1 millimeter, and preferably at... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080238679 - Multi-mode rfid tag architecture: A multi-mode RFID tag includes a power generating and signal detection module, a baseband processing module, a transmit section, a configurable coupling circuit, and an antenna section. In near field mode, the configurable coupling circuit is operable to couple the transmit section to a coil or inductor in the configurable... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238680 - Temporary non-responsive state for rfid tags: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag may have a non-responsive mode, triggered by a command from an RFID reader, that temporarily prevents the RFID tag from responding to a query from any RFID reader for a period of time. In some embodiments this non-responsive mode may automatically end after a... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080238682 - Rfid tag reader: A control unit of a reader superimposes a control signal for antenna switching on a high frequency signal outputted into an antenna unit from a high frequency circuit. The antenna unit includes: separators for separating the superimposed signals into high frequency signals and control signals; a switch circuit for switching... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080238681 - Scope reduction of rfid medium: This invention reduces communication insecurity caused by the air interface during a typical RFID transaction sequence. The RFID industry wide problems of skimming and eavesdropping are eliminated by providing a hermetically sealed container for the purposes of securely interrogating electro magnetic signals which are transmitted between an RFID transponder and... Agent: James Neil Rodgers

20080238683 - Antenna for rfid device reader, and method of use: An antenna for use with an RFID device reader includes a metallic plate and multiple antenna elements attached to the metallic plate. The antenna elements may consist of two prongs each, with the prongs of each element arrayed in a diagonal configuration, and with the two prongs forming an X-shape.... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP (avery)

20080238688 - Dynamic rf front end: A dynamic radio frequency (RF) front end includes an antenna array, a power amplifier structure, and a low noise amplifier structure. The power amplifier structure generates a plurality of outbound RF signals from an outbound RF signal and provides the plurality of outbound RF signals to the antenna array. Each... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238685 - Methods and systems of determining physical characteristics associated with objects tagged with rfid tags: Methods and systems of determining physical characteristics associated with objects tagged with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising making a first reading of a RFID tag coupled to an object (an electromagnetic signal received from the RFID tag having a first... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080238686 - Methods and systems of determining physical characteristics associated with objects tagged with rfid tags: Methods and systems of determining physical characteristics associated with objects tagged with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising receiving an electromagnetic signal transmitted by a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag coupled to an object (the receiving the electromagnetic signal in response... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080238684 - Multi-antenna element systems and related methods: Multi-Antenna element systems and related methods. At least some of the illustrative embodiments comprise a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag comprising an antenna system. The antenna system comprises a ground plane, a first antenna element on a first side of the ground plane, and a second antenna element on a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080238687 - Secure rfid device: An RFID device comprises a device body and an antenna integrally located thereon. The device comprises a metallic chassis about the body, the antenna is spaced by at least one millimeter from the metallic chassis, and the antenna is tuned to achieve resonance at a desired operating frequency at the... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080238689 - Apparatus for producing rfid labels and rfid label: An apparatus for producing RFID labels includes a feeding-roller driving shaft configured to feed a base tape on which a RFID circuit element provided with a tag antenna having directivity with sensitivity to one side higher than that to the other side is arranged, a sensor configured to acquire information... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080238690 - Driver and registration identification for vehicle enablement: A method and system are described for monitoring and enforcing license and operations restrictions on the operation of a motor vehicle. The method comprises the steps of uniquely identifying the operator of the vehicle, identifying driver license status and/or restrictions, and monitoring and enforcing the limits of operation of the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080238692 - System and method for remote monitoring of an individual with objects configured as household items: In embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for remotely monitoring an individual may include providing a sensor integrated in a monitoring object at a first location where the monitoring object may be configured as a household item. The sensor may be associated with an environment of an individual... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080238691 - System, method, and kit for monitoring an individual remotely: In embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for remotely monitoring an individual may include providing a sensor integrated in a monitoring object at a first location where the monitoring object may be configured as a household item. The sensor may be associated with an environment of an individual... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080238693 - Individual monitoring system: An individual monitoring system for efficiently monitoring when individuals stray from a designated area. The individual monitoring system generally includes a base unit and at least one sub unit to communicate with the base unit. The base unit transmits a first signal a predetermined distance, wherein the first signal does... Agent: Neustel Law Offices, Ltd.

20080238694 - Drowsiness alarm apparatus and program: A drowsiness alarm apparatus and a program for decreasing the possibility of incorrectly issuing an alarm due to an expressed emotion is provided. A wakefulness degree calculation apparatus performs a wakeful face feature collection process to collect a wakefulness degree criterion and an average representative feature distance. A doze alarm... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080238695 - Biological signal detector: A signal detector detects biological signal associated with a driver using electrode devices and a pulse wave sensor built into a steering wheel. A pulse wave sensor is built into a spoke part of the steering wheel and electrode devices are built into a ring part joined with the left... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080238696 - Warning device and method: A warning device including a transmitting mechanism for transmitting a signal indicative of a fire, inclement weather, flooding, a tornado, a cyclone, a hurricane, a tsunami, a tidal wave, a microburst, a blizzard, an ice storm, a hail storm, an Amber alert, a terrorist attack, a riot, a landslide, a... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080238698 - Activation sensing: It is known that determination of bleed valve activation in a gas turbine engine can be difficult unless the engine is maintained at a steady idle state for comparison between that state and effects of activation of the bleed valve. Furthermore, specific test activation of bleed valves increases wear and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080238697 - Differential pressure measuring probe with bottoming indicator: A bottoming indication system indicates contact between an inner wall of a fluid conducting conduit and a tip of a differential pressure measuring probe. The system includes a piezoelectric device and an indicator. The piezoelectric device is affixed to the tip of the differential pressure measuring probe so that pressure... Agent: Hanes & Schutz, LLC

20080238700 - Method and apparatus for detecting constituent changes in an environment: An air monitoring apparatus includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a housing having at least one fluid passage to permit a fluid to enter the housing, and a constituent detection device positioned in the housing. The detection device includes at least one electrode, a power supply electrically coupled to the at... Agent: Patent Docket Department Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080238699 - Real time alarm classification and method of use: A real time alarm classification system and method of use and, more particularly, to a residual gas analyzer configured to identify specific root causes of an abnormal condition such as, for example, contamination, undesirable process variability and equipment malfunction in wafer processing. The real-time alarm classification system comprises a computer... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080238701 - Interactive interface within a monitoring and control device: A power monitoring device in a power utility system having an interactive display that allows an end user of the power monitoring device to communicate voice and optionally video data over the Internet protocol with a support operator at a remote system. The interactive display includes an input panel for... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20080238702 - Electrostatic discharge protection device with phosphors and method of fabricating the same: An exemplary electrostatic discharge protection device includes: an electrostatic discharge part configured for discharging electrostatic when the electrostatic is larger than a threshold value; and a light emitting part configured for emitting light when electrostatic discharge happens.... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080238703 - Wireless communication device with rf integrated circuit having an on-chip gyrator: An integrated circuit includes an on-chip gyrating circuit that generates a motion parameter based on motion of the IC. An RF transceiver generates an outbound RF signal from outbound data and that generates inbound data from an inbound RF signal. A processing module processes the motion parameter, generates the outbound... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238705 - Fan detecting apparatus: A fan detecting apparatus for detecting at least two fans includes a processing unit, at least two airflow switches, and at least two indicating units. The processing unit includes a first terminal configured to output a driving signal, a second terminal configured to receive the driving signal, and a third... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080238704 - Rfid detection of air vent condition in inkjet printer supplies: Embodiments of an ink tank are provided, which comprise an ink tank housing, at least one air vent disposed on the housing, and at least one RFID tag disposed on the housing, wherein the at lest one RFID tag is operable to communicate with an RFID reader. The ink tank... Agent: Neill R. Kahle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20080238706 - Apparatus and method for proximity-responsive display materials: Apparatus and a method for causing a printed display (poster, placard or promotional flier) to become interactive when a person points to part of the display. Behind the display a customised layout of capacitative proximity sensors printed with conductive inks on to a low-cost disposable, replaceable substrate (paper, plastic, cardboard)... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080238707 - Failure current measurement for electronic control module: A method and system for assessing or otherwise determining defective operation of an electronic control unit (ECU). The ECU may be a vehicle or non-vehicle ECU having any number of modules configured to provide and/or support any number of operations. The defective ECU operations may be determined as a function... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20080238709 - One-way communication apparatus with dynamic key generation: A remote control device is coupled with a computing device such as a set top computing device using wired or wireless connectivity for the purpose of invoking services provided by the computing device. The remote control device uses biometric methods such as fingerprint scanning to identify the user of the... Agent: Billy J. Knowles Bk Patents, Inc.

20080238708 - Simplified control system for electronic media: A control system with a simplified control device (10) for direct selection of electronic media operations, and for programmed navigation through the content without using dedicated navigation functions of a media player. The simplified control device (10) includes a limited number of keys, comprising direct-select keys (20-26) and navigation keys... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080238710 - System and method for demand dispatch and load management: Provided is a system and method for monitoring utilization of a resource across an entire distribution area. The system dynamically and intelligently limits the aggregated utilization of the resource across an entire distribution area or targeted sub areas. Targeted usage thresholds at the device (individual utilization) level, as well as... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080238711 - Automated meter reader direct mount endpoint module: An automated meter reader module can be operably connected to an existing utility meter to provide an endpoint for use in an automated meter reader system. The automated meter reader module can utilize an index attachment drive mechanism to electronically and mechanically monitor consumption of a utility such as water,... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080238713 - Electronic meter having user-interface and central processing functionality on a single printed circuit board: A digital electrical power and energy meter integrates a primary processing module and a user interface module onto a single printed circuit board to reduce overall meter size, assembly time, and cost.... Agent: Electro Industries/ Gaugetech C/o Casella & Hespos, LLP

20080238712 - Remote display chain for mutiple user interface applications: A multi-master serial bus that connects multiple utility monitoring devices with multiple remote electronic display units. The display units include an I2C microprocessor with an integrated LCD controller for controlling an LCD display and a set of buttons for changing what is displayed on the LCD display. They also include... Agent: Kareem M. Irfan, Esq. Square D Company-schneider Electric

20080238714 - Utility network communications using meter identifiers: An electronic electric meter for use in a networked automatic meter reading environment. The meter includes a meter microcontroller, a measurement microcontroller, a communication microcontroller and spread spectrum processor, and a plurality of other communication interface modules for communicating commodity utilization and power quality data to a utility. The meter... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080238716 - Gateway-controlled communications with a meter in a utility network: An electronic electric meter for use in a networked automatic meter reading environment. The meter includes a meter microcontroller, a measurement microcontroller, a communication microcontroller and spread spectrum processor, and a plurality of other communication interface modules for communicating commodity utilization and power quality data to a utility. The meter... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080238715 - Remote parking meter auditing module: A remote parking meter monitoring system is provided. The system has a plurality of radio transceivers. Each transceiver communicates with at least one other transceiver within a transceiver communication region. The transceivers are integrated to parking meters. A separate aggregate point has a transceiver and a communication network that is... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080238717 - Variable rate analog-to-digital converter: According to various embodiments of the invention a variable rate analog-to-digital converter can be used in conjunction with an anti-aliasing filter to allow the use of lower sampling rates, and accordingly, generally lower power consumption. For example, a lower sampling rate can be used when it is determined that no... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080238718 - Method for preventing lane departure for use with vehicle: Disclosed is a method for preventing lane departure for use in a vehicle. The method determines whether the vehicle is moving out of its lane by extracting lane markings from an image inputted by using rear side cameras mounted on both side mirrors, calculating a lane departure distance from the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080238719 - Vehicle violation enforcement system and method: A vehicle violation enforcement and noticing system that includes a first server and a second server. The first server contains a vehicle information database that is in communication with the second server. The second server is a mobile data terminal that allows for the identification of vehicles and retrieves the... Agent: Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

20080238720 - System and method for intelligent traffic control using wireless sensor and actuator networks: Disclosed is a system and method for intelligent traffic control using wireless sensor and actuator networks. The system comprises a control center, M regional gateways, and N sensor and actuator nodes. The N sensor and actuator nodes and L cluster heads form L clusters. Each cluster includes a cluster head... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080238721 - Traffic control system: A system and method for moving vehicular traffic in a single lane through a control zone requires creation of a control protocol. The protocol establishes a spacing distance “s” and a speed “v” for each vehicle in the control zone. A computer then controls movement of a visible signal through... Agent: Nydegger & Associates

20080238722 - Parking aid for a vehicle and parking aid method: A parking aid (10) comprises at least one sensor (12) emitting and/or receiving signals, and an evaluation unit (18) processing the emitted and/or received signals. The parking aid is characterized in that a deflection device (22) swivels the sensor (12) and/or the emission direction (16) of the sensor depending on... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20080238723 - Digital windshield information system employing a recommendation engine keyed to a map database system: Disclosed is a method and system for recommending locations keyed to a map database system and providing navigation instructions to the recommended locations to a driver of a vehicle by gathering actual statistics about the preferences of the user and/or by comparing the user to population data to create recommendations... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080238724 - Navigation apparatus having a picture frame function and method for operating the same: A navigation apparatus includes a map data storage for storing a map data, a picture frame image storage for storing one or more images, a mode-based setting storage for storing mode-based settings required in operating the navigation apparatus in a drive guide mode, a picture frame mode or a combination... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC